-LyX has been ported to Win32 using the Cygwin environement. The port
-consists of a few small tweaks to deal with DOS-style pathnames, so
-LyX can use Win32 TeX distros like fptex and MiKTeX. There's also a
-cygwin TeTeX port, but the native Win32 ports have a definite speed
-advantage. Besides that, nothing fancy.
+There are two ways to run LyX on Windows:
+* as a native Windows application, using the Qt/Win Free clone of
+ Trolltech's cross-platform Qt toolkit.
+* as a POSIX application running under the Cygwin environment.
+
+This README describes what is needed for the latter of these two
+options. Please refer to README.Win32 if you'd like to run LyX
+as a native Windows application.
+
+The Cygwin port consists of a few small tweaks to the original
+Unix sources to deal with DOS-style pathnames, so that LyX can use
+Win32 TeX distros like fptex and MiKTeX. There's also a cygwin TeTeX port,
+but the native Win32 ports have a definite speed advantage. Besides that,
+nothing fancy.