diff --git a/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md b/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md
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@@ -136,9 +136,15 @@ In order to change such user-configurable settings, you can either modify the `u
 
 Building International Components for Unicode requires:
 
-*   Microsoft Windows
-*   Microsoft Visual C++ (part of [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/)) (from either Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017)
-*   _**Optional:**_ A version of the [Windows 10 SDK](https://developer.microsoft.com/windows/downloads) (if you want to build the UWP projects)
+*   Microsoft Windows 7 or newer. (Windows XP and Windows Vista are not  supported)
+*   Microsoft Visual C++ (part of [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/)) (from either Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019)
+*   _**Optional:**_ A version of the [Windows 10 SDK](https://developer.microsoft.com/windows/downloads) is needed if you want to build the UWP projects.
+
+Notes regarding Windows specific issues:
+- When using "`@compat=host`" on versions of Windows below Windows 10 version 1703, there are 6 locales with date and number formatting issues ([#13119](https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-13119)).
+
+- The LCID conversion APIs don't round-trip Kurdish (ku) and Central Kurdish (ckb) due to Windows not having a ckb locale ([#20181](https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-20181)).
+
 
 > :point_right: **Note**: [Cygwin](#how-to-build-and-install-on-windows-with-cygwin) is required if using a version of MSVC other than the one compatible with the supplied project files or if other compilers are used to build ICU. (e.g. GCC)