External mic in bootcamp Windows 7

MBP Retina, 256G, 2012.
So I plug an iPhone headset into the jack and in Mac OS it works as a mic just fine.
But then I do the same in Windows 7 with bootcamp installed (v 4.0 btw) and it just doesn't seem to work. In the "Recordings" tab, as you can see, is only the internal mic.
WUT DO?

Thread with similar problem and solution here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3363082?tstart=0
Stefan

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