diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index e47af72e01..8acdeb71fd 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -381,8 +381,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	NO_PYTHON = YesPlease
 	BLK_SHA1 = YesPlease
 	ETAGS_TARGET = ETAGS
-	NO_INET_PTON = YesPlease
-	NO_INET_NTOP = YesPlease
 	NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes
 	NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease
 	DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
@@ -529,8 +527,6 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
 	NO_REGEX = YesPlease
 	NO_PYTHON = YesPlease
 	ETAGS_TARGET = ETAGS
-	NO_INET_PTON = YesPlease
-	NO_INET_NTOP = YesPlease
 	NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes
 	DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNOGDI -Icompat -Icompat/win32
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 3ba93d9c15..48c955541e 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 
 #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) /* Both MinGW and MSVC */
 # if !defined(_WIN32_WINNT)
-#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
+#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
 # endif
 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* stops windows.h including winsock.h */
 #include <winsock2.h>