Comment by kibwen

To be fair, Microsoft got the memo, it took all the useful parts of the global menu bar and put them in the start bar, which is itself glued to the bottom of the screen and thus respects Fitts' Law. Windows did put the application-specific menus into the per-window title bar, but even then the most important part of the title bar is the section with the close/minimize/maximize buttons, and on Windows a maximized window puts those buttons at the edge of the screen, again as per Fitts' Law, whereas Mac disobeys Fitts' Law here and puts those buttons below the global menu bar.