diff --git a/src/rez/utils/colorize.py b/src/rez/utils/colorize.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/rez/utils/colorize.py
+++ b/src/rez/utils/colorize.py
@@ -193,12 +193,7 @@ def _color(str_, fore_color=None, back_color=None, styles=None):
     .. _Colorama:
         https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama
     """
-    # TODO: Colorama is documented to work on Windows and trivial test case
-    # proves this to be the case, but it doesn't work in Rez.  If the initialise
-    # is called in sec/rez/__init__.py then it does work, however as discussed
-    # in the following comment this is not always desirable.  So until we can
-    # work out why we forcibly turn it off.
-    if not config.get("color_enabled", False) or platform_.name == "windows":
+    if not config.get("color_enabled", False):
         return str_
 
     # lazily init colorama. This is important - we don't want to init at startup,
Remove windows exception from colorize.py