diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 9dd0ead9c6fe..a323a1a85214 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -9,7 +9,43 @@
       }],
     ],
   },
+  # Settings to compile node under Windows.
+  'target_defaults': {
+    'target_conditions': [
+      ['_target_name in ["libuv", "cares", "openssl", "node", "zlib"]', {
+        'msvs_disabled_warnings': [
+          4013,  # 'free' undefined; assuming extern returning int
+          4054,  #
+          4057,  # 'function' : 'volatile LONG *' differs in indirection to slightly different base types from 'unsigned long *'
+          4189,  #
+          4131,  # uses old-style declarator
+          4133,  # incompatible types
+          4152,  # function/data pointer conversion in expression
+          4206,  # translation unit is empty
+          4204,  # non-constant aggregate initializer
+          4389,  # '==' : signed/unsigned mismatch
+          4505,  # unreferenced local function has been removed
+          4701,  # potentially uninitialized local variable 'sizew' used
+          4706,  # assignment within conditional expression
+          4996,  #
+        ],
+        'msvs_settings': {
+          'VCCLCompilerTool': {
+            'WarnAsError': 'false',
+          },
+        },
+      }],
+    ],
+    'msvs_cygwin_shell': 0, # Strangely setting it to 1 would make building under cygwin fail.
+    'msvs_disabled_warnings': [
+      4005,  # (node.h) macro redefinition
+      4201,  # (uv.h) nameless struct/union
+      4800,  # (v8.h) forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false'
+      4819,  # The file contains a character that cannot be represented in the current code page
+    ],
+  },
   'conditions': [
+    # Settings to compile with clang under OS X.
     ['clang==1', {
       'make_global_settings': [
         ['CC', '/usr/bin/clang'],
diff --git a/vendor/node b/vendor/node
index 1f85e7fa2d66..60442e249c69 160000
--- a/vendor/node
+++ b/vendor/node
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 1f85e7fa2d66522ce145dd76cf3a4b6eb62a802d
+Subproject commit 60442e249c697c13782c257cc63ae8038573c721