OS X doesn't suffer from the File Menu/Close Button proximity problem either since the menu bar isn't attached to the window. That proximity alone should be a disqualifier for this new layout.
The situation gets even worse when I use multiple monitors as menu bar only shows on one of them.
But on the occasions when menu is required, the experience sucks big on my dual-monitor setting. And there is no keyboard shortcut to ease the pain.
http://www.asktog.com/columns/034OSX-FirstLook.html
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> People with experience with Windows know how easy it is to hit the wrong control and accidentally close down the whole application when setting it aside was the goal. Apple has actually provided some pretty decent spacing in these controls, in addition to enlarging their size. I wouldn't expect the kind of error rates from this that people have been predicting, although the original scheme of having "dangerous" on one side of the title bar and "benign" on the other made a lot more sense.
I think the key complaint at the time was:
> The button sequence is also a problem, in that it clashes badly with both the current layout and with Windows. This will also be a problem.
Plus ça change....
Someone mentioned multiple monitors/high resolution -- personally I think none of the major desktop operating systems have scaled to handle multiple monitors or high resolution displays very well. We're still stuck with this idea everything useful has to be on the edges of the screen.