diff --git a/Doc/library/platform.rst b/Doc/library/platform.rst
index 47f0e7e2c5f..e80fc11474d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/platform.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/platform.rst
@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ Windows Platform
 
       Note: this function works best with Mark Hammond's
       :mod:`win32all` package installed, but also on Python 2.3 and
-      later. It obviously only runs on Win32 compatible platforms.
+      later (support for this was added in Python 2.6). It obviously
+      only runs on Win32 compatible platforms.
 
 
 Win95/98 specific