What is the use of System.Environment class in ASP.Net?

The class System.Environment is used to retrieve information about the operating system. Some of the static members of this class are as follows:
1) Environment.OSVersion - Gets the version of the operating system
2) Environment.GetLogicalDrives() - method that returns the drives
3) Environment.Version - returns the .NET version running the application
4) Environment.MachineName - Gets name of the current machine
5) Environment.Newline - Gets the newline symbol for the environment
6) Environment.ProcessorCount - returns number of processors on current machine
7) Environment.SystemDirectory - returns complete path to the System Directory
8) Environment.UserName - returns name of the entity that invoked the application