Comment 6 for bug 1240360

It isn't a standard; it is just something Windows does, and it has a specific meaning: don't auto run non essential software, but otherwise you get a normal desktop. That is not at all the same thing as recovery mode, which gives you a text menu allowing you to fsck the root filesystem or drop to a root shell with the root filesystem still mounted read-only.

I think that trying to use Microsoft terms for things that are at best, vaguely similar, just for the sake of sounding familiar to Windows users is a mistake, but that's just my opinion.