On 9/28/2015 4:47 AM, John Colvin wrote:
The alternative view is that MS messed it up so bad that it became nearly impossible to use manually, so they gave up and just wrote complicated automation to deal with it, making 3rd party development harder than it should be. Of course, it doesn't really matter why; it is what it is.
If Microsoft wants to have execrable tools for editting environment variables because environment variables are so yesterday, they should stop using them so extensively.