On Windows, setting up a dev environment can often be a pain in the ass, so if you're locked in for wtv reason I can see the pain point they're trying to alleviate.

Even then though, with things like chocolatey nuget[1] and cmdr [2], windows is heading towards parity.

[1] https://chocolatey.org/ [2] http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/