I am not at all keen on the look of Visual Studio 2012 but experience suggests you get used to anything after a while. Some tweaks I found useful:

• Disable the Mouse Wheel zoom by installing this extension. I use the mouse wheel and the control key quite a lot and sometimes trigger the zoom by accident which is very irritating.
• Change the Color Theme to “Blue” (new in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2) at Tools > Options > Environment > General

Using: Visual Studio 2012;