Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- Ctrl+C handling on Windows has been made more consistent with
+  other platforms.  KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
+  and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the 
+  process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x).  Ctrl+C will
+  interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes 
+  created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally 
+  happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]
+
 - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return
   a string.  Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,
   but a buffer object would be returned when the repetition count