It's arguable Microsoft started the whole flat design trend with their Metro UI starting with Windows Media Center and the Zune. Whether that's good or bad is u

It's arguable Microsoft started the whole flat design trend with their Metro UI starting with Windows Media Center and the Zune. Whether that's good or bad is up to you. Windows Snap is a feature basically every Linux desktop cloned about 1 week after Microsoft showed it off during the reveal of Windows 7. MacOS has about 10,000 apps to do the same thing but poorly. I still think nobody has made a better tablet interface than Windows 8.