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Re:Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now by cpeterso on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:10PM (#4051155)
The ALL CAPS MENU TITLES are supposedly "more Metro-like", even though many Metro screenshots are all-lowercase and the Metro motto is "content before chrome."

I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't made their menu titles disappear until you move the mouse near them (like Mac OS X's X-+ window buttons). That sounds like the "hide the UI so it looks good but is less usable" style Microsoft likes.

Re:Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now by jasomill on Friday June 01, 2012 @02:58AM (#4052308)
There's an extension[1] that does this. I'm now tempted to install it, at least until I find a way to back out the SCREAMING new menus. With that said, I've been using the beta for a couple months and it seems both snappier and more stable than 2010.

[1] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bdbcffca-32a6-...

Re:Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now by bgrainger on Friday June 01, 2012 @08:21AM (#4053011)
Turn off the ALL CAPS menus with this registry value: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...
Re:Visual Studio 2012 RC Available Now by kristianp on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:24PM (#4051200)
I installed the beta, which had all-caps in some of the headers. Initially I was annoyed that Microsoft has to spend so much time on changing the look of every edition of visual studio, but when I ran it, I actually liked the grey colour and the ALL CAPS.