[frankPants]

Wow. Thanks Microsoft for cluttering up yet another product with more UI Craptastic.

Honestly I know it's all done in fun but really, people using the product are trying to concentrate, they're trying to solve really hard problems and you're going to pop up some crap telling them they achieved some stupid "award".

You morons, this is akin to the marketing joker in the office that annoys alls the programmers by interrupting them all day with stupid jokes, you know the guy, he's the one you want to punch in the face everyday.

And to the guys that actually coded this up, learn to say no. Put your job on the line; fuck it it's not worth making the world a worse place by adding this kinda crap to a developer tool.

[neilparikh]

It's not part of the IDE itself. It's a plugin you have to go out of your way to install.