diff --git a/docs/howto/windows.txt b/docs/howto/windows.txt
index 5601d1b958..5dc1c3ef0d 100644
--- a/docs/howto/windows.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/windows.txt
@@ -96,12 +96,13 @@ Colored terminal output
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
-A quality-of-life feature is to output colored (rather than monochrome) output
-on the terminal. This should work both on CMD and PowerShell. If for some
-reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable
+A quality-of-life feature adds colored (rather than monochrome) output to the
+terminal. In modern terminals this should work for both CMD and PowerShell. If
+for some reason this needs to be disabled, set the environmental variable
 :envvar:`DJANGO_COLORS` to ``nocolor``.
 
-To enable this, colorama_ must be installed::
+On older Windows versions, or legacy terminals, colorama_ must be installed to
+enable syntax coloring::
 
     ...\> py -m pip install colorama