diff --git a/common_arm/Makefile.common b/common_arm/Makefile.common
index cf4405d6a..b2f085d56 100644
--- a/common_arm/Makefile.common
+++ b/common_arm/Makefile.common
@@ -40,28 +40,11 @@ INCLUDE = -I../include -I../common_arm -I../common_fpga -I../common -I.
 TAR=tar
 TARFLAGS = -C .. -rvf
 
-# Windows' echo echos its input verbatim, on Posix there is some
-#  amount of shell command line parsing going on. echo "" on 
-#  Windows yields literal "", on Linux yields an empty line
-ifeq ($(shell echo ""),)
 DELETE=rm -rf
 MOVE=mv
 COPY=cp
 PATHSEP=/
-FLASH_TOOL=client/flasher
-# This is probably a proper system, so we can use uname
 DETECTED_OS=$(platform)
-else
-
-# Assume that we are running on Windows.
-DELETE=del /q
-MOVE=ren
-COPY=copy
-PATHSEP=\\#
-FLASH_TOOL=client\\flasher.exe
-DETECTED_OS=Windows
-
-endif
 
 # Also search prerequisites in the common directory (for usb.c), the fpga directory (for fpga.bit), and the zlib directory
 VPATH = . ../common_arm ../common ../common/crapto1 ../common/mbedtls ../common/zlib ../fpga ../armsrc/Standalone