So.  I've had two web-based RSS readers go belly-up on me this summer (Google Reader and The Old Reader, the latter of which just announced that it's shutting down for everyone but the developers' friends in two weeks).  I'm getting mortally tired of this, so I thought, well, IE/Windows LiveMail are supposed to have an RSS reader, why don't I try that?

So I tried to use LiveMail's typing in the feed URL in the appropriate dialog box to add a sample feed to see if I liked it, and LiveMail insisted that it wasn't a proper feed address even though I know it is (it's my own blog -- like I said, for a sample).  So I went to my blog's RSS feed address in IE, and found a "subscribe to this feed" button and clicked it, and lo and behold, the feed with the same address that LiveMail choked on shows up in both LiveMail's and IE's feed lists.  But, even though there are unread posts in that feed according to IE, LiveMail insists there aren't any.

I would prefer to use LiveMail's feed interface rather than IE's.  How do I make feeds work properly in LiveMail?

I'm on a Windows 8 machine with the most recent iterations of both LiveMail and IE. (the last time I asked a question here, I got asked for this info several times, even though it was quite clearly stated in the original post -- I'm just trying to save time here)

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.