SQL Server Management Studio 2012 - horrible blue background I've just installed SSMS 2012 and when I loaded it up I was presented with a nasty blue background - it looks so bad that I honestly thought something was broken, but apparently it's supposed to look like that!

Short of sending the SQL Server Design Team a set of vouchers to have their eyesight tested, is there anything that I can do to change this?  I've looked around and found a couple of other people whose sight has been similarly assaulted, but I cannot find a solution.
Are you talking about the below appearance?



If that's the case, then I don't think that blue background is able to be changed.  I'm not sure why that'd be such a hang-up, as if you're staring at that background in SSMS, then you're probably not really doing anything.  Like Martin said above, the query window or other placeholders in that area will cover that completely.

When you have a query window open, it should look similar to the below screenshot:



As you can notice, you don't really see that blue background at all.  99% of the time (at least for me when I'm in SSMS), this will be the visual representation of SSMS.