$ENV HOME on windows

I apologise for the basic question, but I am using perl on windows for
the first time (after about 20 years using it on unix...) and the
problem does not make sense to me. Perl (active state) complaints that
the value is not initialized. Why in heaven?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
print $ENV{HOME};

.

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