Remember, much of the windows feel that started with win95 came right from the apple desktop. Microsoft saw that apple had and easy to use desktop that made sense to the user, so they esentially stole it. While I don't like windows much either, it isn't all bad. One of it's good points is the desktop. A windows user can sit down at any windows box and know exactly how to control things with the desktop. They can configure it in the exact same way on every system.
With linux, people want customization, but that custom desktop can lead to confusion. Sure, some people will want they're special desktop. Most users just want a functional desktop that in similar from system to system and works. RH is just trying to make the linux desktop as easy to use as the windows desktop. And if you don't like it, you can always change it to you liking.
I'd have to say I think this is a really great idea on RH's part. I'm a fairly new linux user and I don't feel any particular attachment to either KDE or Gnome. Anything that get's closer to a unified desktop makes sense to me. No offense to KDE/Gnome diehards, but I could care less about the tiny little things people say makes one 1000 times better than the other. I just need a desktop that's simple to use and works. Making Gnome and KDE act in a similar fashion removes the need for me to pick which one might suit me ever so slightly better even though it's missing features of the other. And don't even get into installing both. Having KDE and Gnome installed at the same time is as usefull as a linux/win dual boot, not at all.
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Remember, much of the windows feel that started with win95 came right from the apple desktop. Microsoft saw that apple had and easy to use desktop that made sense to the user, so they esentially stole it. While I don't like windows much either, it isn't all bad. One of it's good points is the desktop. A windows user can sit down at any windows box and know exactly how to control things with the desktop. They can configure it in the exact same way on every system. With linux, people want customization, but that custom desktop can lead to confusion. Sure, some people will want they're special desktop. Most users just want a functional desktop that in similar from system to system and works. RH is just trying to make the linux desktop as easy to use as the windows desktop. And if you don't like it, you can always change it to you liking.
I'd have to say I think this is a really great idea on RH's part. I'm a fairly new linux user and I don't feel any particular attachment to either KDE or Gnome. Anything that get's closer to a unified desktop makes sense to me. No offense to KDE/Gnome diehards, but I could care less about the tiny little things people say makes one 1000 times better than the other. I just need a desktop that's simple to use and works. Making Gnome and KDE act in a similar fashion removes the need for me to pick which one might suit me ever so slightly better even though it's missing features of the other. And don't even get into installing both. Having KDE and Gnome installed at the same time is as usefull as a linux/win dual boot, not at all.