diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 858ca14a573510..23734982bac171 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -202,6 +202,31 @@ static int ask_yes_no_if_possible(const char *format, ...)
 	}
 }
 
+/* Normalizes NT paths as returned by some low-level APIs. */
+static wchar_t *normalize_ntpath(wchar_t *wbuf)
+{
+	int i;
+	/* fix absolute path prefixes */
+	if (wbuf[0] == '\\') {
+		/* strip NT namespace prefixes */
+		if (!wcsncmp(wbuf, L"\\??\\", 4) ||
+		    !wcsncmp(wbuf, L"\\\\?\\", 4))
+			wbuf += 4;
+		else if (!wcsnicmp(wbuf, L"\\DosDevices\\", 12))
+			wbuf += 12;
+		/* replace remaining '...UNC\' with '\\' */
+		if (!wcsnicmp(wbuf, L"UNC\\", 4)) {
+			wbuf += 2;
+			*wbuf = '\\';
+		}
+	}
+	/* convert backslashes to slashes */
+	for (i = 0; wbuf[i]; i++)
+		if (wbuf[i] == '\\')
+			wbuf[i] = '/';
+	return wbuf;
+}
+
 int mingw_unlink(const char *pathname)
 {
 	int ret, tries = 0;
@@ -887,8 +912,29 @@ struct tm *localtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result)
 
 char *mingw_getcwd(char *pointer, int len)
 {
-	wchar_t wpointer[MAX_PATH];
-	if (!_wgetcwd(wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer)))
+	wchar_t cwd[MAX_PATH], wpointer[MAX_PATH];
+	DWORD ret = GetCurrentDirectoryW(ARRAY_SIZE(cwd), cwd);
+
+	if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(cwd)) {
+		errno = ret ? ENAMETOOLONG : err_win_to_posix(GetLastError());
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	ret = GetLongPathNameW(cwd, wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer));
+	if (!ret && GetLastError() == ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED) {
+		HANDLE hnd = CreateFileW(cwd, 0,
+			FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, NULL,
+			OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, NULL);
+		if (hnd == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+			return NULL;
+		ret = GetFinalPathNameByHandleW(hnd, wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer), 0);
+		CloseHandle(hnd);
+		if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer))
+			return NULL;
+		if (xwcstoutf(pointer, normalize_ntpath(wpointer), len) < 0)
+			return NULL;
+		return pointer;
+	}
+	if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer))
 		return NULL;
 	if (xwcstoutf(pointer, wpointer, len) < 0)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/compat/poll/poll.c b/compat/poll/poll.c
index 7ed3fbbea13c99..ad5dcde439d3db 100644
--- a/compat/poll/poll.c
+++ b/compat/poll/poll.c
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
-/* Specification.  */
-#include <poll.h>
-
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <assert.h>
@@ -55,6 +52,9 @@
 # include <unistd.h>
 #endif
 
+/* Specification.  */
+#include "poll.h"
+
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H
 # include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #endif
diff --git a/compat/poll/poll.h b/compat/poll/poll.h
index cd1995292a536f..1e1597360f4485 100644
--- a/compat/poll/poll.h
+++ b/compat/poll/poll.h
@@ -21,6 +21,21 @@
 #ifndef _GL_POLL_H
 #define _GL_POLL_H
 
+#if defined(_WIN32_WINNT) && _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x600
+/* Vista has its own, socket-only poll() */
+#undef POLLIN
+#undef POLLPRI
+#undef POLLOUT
+#undef POLLERR
+#undef POLLHUP
+#undef POLLNVAL
+#undef POLLRDNORM
+#undef POLLRDBAND
+#undef POLLWRNORM
+#undef POLLWRBAND
+#define pollfd compat_pollfd
+#endif
+
 /* fake a poll(2) environment */
 #define POLLIN      0x0001      /* any readable data available   */
 #define POLLPRI     0x0002      /* OOB/Urgent readable data      */
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index e47af72e018fc3..8acdeb71fdab3b 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 5f2e90932f9990..48c955541e2000 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@
 #define _SGI_SOURCE 1
 
 #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) /* Both MinGW and MSVC */
-# if defined (_MSC_VER) && !defined(_WIN32_WINNT)
-#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
+# if !defined(_WIN32_WINNT)
+#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
 # endif
 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* stops windows.h including winsock.h */
 #include <winsock2.h>