David Vronay writes in his blog that "One of the first things people notice when they start using Vista is the absence of menu bars." accompanied by this screenshot: .

I won't deny that things have changed, but I wouldn't say there are no menu's left. Not unless you think that a menu bar can't have any icons. Microsoft calls this invention the "command module". I don't see why it's not a menu. Granted, it also has some characteristics of a task-bar, but when you bush a button there's still a menu coming out of it.
So the claim that Vista does away with menubars is only true if you stick to the strictest definition of menubar. Unfortunatly this claim seems to suggest that menu's have gone altogether, but that is just misleading.