Let me put it like this: if I were to decide on a Windows Perl distro for, let's say a large enterprise, I'd probably choose Strawberry Perl, and I'd play the game well enough to not let non-issues become a factor.
If it was up to me, and I had the time, and I absolutely had to use windows, I would probably agree.
Sadly for this particular project, time (IOW: money) was a serious constraint, and in fact in the end due to some annoying bugs in the windows multimedia framework and to ease development we decided to give up on windows and switched the whole thing to Linux.