What version of Windows are you running on? On Windows XP Professional I can do the following:
use strict;

my $cmd = 'perl -e "die( q[report this error] )" 2>&1';
if ( ! open( FIN, "$cmd |" ) ) {
    die( "Could not run $cmd: $!" );
}
my $input = join( '', <FIN> );
close( FIN );

print( "My input was:\n$input\n--end--\n" );

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which outputs the following:
C:\temp>perl -w perlwinredirect.pl
My input was:
report this error at -e line 1.

--end--

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In reply to Re: Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT by monarch
in thread Synchronizing STDERR and STDOUT by Ovid

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