I've been surreptitiously looking at people's VS color settings over the past few days and there's a definite trend towards 'the dark side', I've been very boring and the only change I really make is to using a non-proportional font(Verdana) and a teeny tiny text size. I would go to the dark side *if* I could get the rest of VS to go the same way...if Office can do surely we can (hopefully when vNext kicks off they'll have some nice UI enhancements). I just think a black text hole in the middle of a generic gray UI looks tacky.