Comment by dragonwriter

> One thing I'd like to see explained is the location of "Programs" at the top of the Start menu, rather than right at the bottom where it would be closer and less mouse movement.

If you move the taskbar to the left or top, this problem is dealt with. (As is the problem that later versions of windows -- before they got rid of it altogether -- moved "Programs" below the dynamically-added links to things that Windows thinks you are more likely to use, which keeps those more-likely things farther from the start button if you keep the taskbar at the bottom.)

I wonder if the taskbar was originally planned for one of those two (top/left) locations, but got moved to the bottom later.