[Slashed]

First time I stumbled upon this version of Windows about half a year ago. I actually installed it on one of my laptops. When it's BOOTed, the "GUI" is pretty much like in Safe-Mode, only in full display resolution, i.e. a blue background and a console window. I don't remember exactly, but it was missing a lot of libraries.. so I couldn't actually install much software. Though, I'm sure it's possible to install all the missing libraries via Microsoft's website.

[rbanffy]

It's likely programs and libraries will refuse to work and complain they were not designed to run under your operating system.

[thwarted]

Reading this description reminded me of Novel Netware's plain text dialog interface.