diff --git a/windows/README b/windows/README
index 7f8d2bf7..8d63bc74 100644
--- a/windows/README
+++ b/windows/README
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ instructions printed on the screen.  The instructions bellow are for
 building Wget with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC); you may need to make
 appropriate substitutions for your compiler and build environment; 
 currently wget can be built at least with Visual Studio/.Net, the free 
-Borland compiler, and the free cygnus and mingw environments.
+Borland compiler, and the free mingw environment.  The instructions do
+*not* apply to the Cygwin environment, on which Wget is built with the
+procedure described in the INSTALL file in the top-level directory.
 
 To build Wget with MSVC run configure.bat (in the main Wget directory)
 with the argument --msvc, and then run nmake.  At a certain point in time