NEWS: Introduce Windows support

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 strongswan-5.2.0
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+- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
+  many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
+  and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
+  libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
+  backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
+  implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
+  WinHTTP API.
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 - The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
   charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
   control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool