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Environment hooks are not only available on Linux. And they don't only provide stuff like tab completion.

It is perfectly valid and encouraged to not only have sh/bash environment hooks but also bat equivalents. E.g. the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH must be available on all platforms and is also defined in an environment hook:

https://github.com/ros/ros/blob/indigo-devel/core/roslib/env-hooks/10.ros.sh.em#L33
https://github.com/ros/ros/blob/indigo-devel/core/roslib/env-hooks/10.ros.bat.em#L32

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