diff --git a/README-WIN.txt b/README-WIN.txt
index d8964f1..0274e46 100644
--- a/README-WIN.txt
+++ b/README-WIN.txt
@@ -1,20 +1,11 @@
-How to build on Windows
+As of sysbench 1.0 support for native Windows builds was dropped. It may
+be re-introduced in later versions.
 
+Currently, the recommended way to build sysbench on Windows is using
+Windows Subsystem for Linux available in Windows 10:
+https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
 
-You need CMake (download from http://www.cmake.org/) and Visual Studio 2015 or 
-later.
+After installing WSL and getting a bash prompt, following Debian/Ubuntu
+build instructions is sufficient.
 
-1.Open Visual Studio command line prompt
-2.To build with MySQL support, you will need mysql.h header file and client 
-library libmysqld.lib
-One can get them e.g by downloading and unpacking the "zip" distribution of mysql
-
-- Append directory where libmysql.lib is located to environment variable LIB, e.g
-  set LIB=%LIB%;G:\mysql-noinstall-6.0.6-alpha-win32\mysql-6.0.6-alpha-win32\lib\opt
-
-- Append directory where mysql.h is located to environment variable INCLUDE, e.g
-  set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;G:\mysql-noinstall-6.0.6-alpha-win32\mysql-6.0.6-alpha-win32\include
-3.In the sysbench directory, execute cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" 
-4.Open sysbench.sln in Explorer and build Relwithdebinfo target.
-  Alternatively, from the command line, issue  
-  vcbuild /useenv sysbench.sln "Relwithdebinfo|Win32"
+Alternatively, one can build and use sysbench 0.5 natively for Windows.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 21f4d40..85d1f78 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ Current features allow to test the following system parameters:
 
 ## Build Requirements
 
+### Windows
+As of sysbench 1.0 support for native Windows builds was dropped. It may
+be re-introduced in later versions.
+
+Currently, the recommended way to build sysbench on Windows is using
+[Windows Subsystem for Linux available in Windows 10](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about).
+
+After installing WSL and getting into bash prompt on Windows, following
+Debian/Ubuntu build instructions is sufficient.
+
+Alternatively, one can build and use sysbench 0.5 natively for Windows.
+
+
 ### Debian/Ubuntu
 ``` shell
     apt -y install make automake libtool pkg-config vim-common
@@ -79,8 +92,6 @@ To compile sysbench without MySQL support, use `--without-mysql`. If no
 database drivers are available database-related scripts will not work,
 but other benchmarks will be functional.
 
-See [README-WIN.txt](README-WIN.txt) for instructions on Windows builds.
-
 See [README-Oracle.md](README-Oracle.md) for instructions on building
 with Oracle client libraries.