You use Windows Mail to download newsgroup messages. However, if you use certain date and time formats in some language versions of Windows Vista, Windows Mail does not download the associated metadata that is used to rate newsgroup messages and to vote on newsgroup messages.

For example, this issue may occur if you use an English version of Windows Vista that is configured to use a Japanese date and time format or a Traditional Chinese date and time format.

Note: This issue will not prevent you from reading newsgroup messages. This issue prevents you from using the feature that enables you to rate newsgroup messages and to vote on newsgroup messages. Additionally, you cannot see the details of the people who post to newsgroups.

In Windows Vista, you use the Windows Mail feature. When you try to use the spelling checker on English-language text, the spelling checker does not work as expected.

When you try to configure Windows Mail to use an Web-based e-mail account on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you experience one of the following symptoms:

• When you try to add a Hotmail account or an MSN account to Windows Mail, you receive the following message:
  

  Information About HTTP E-mail

  Windows Mail no longer supports the HTTP servers used by Hotmail and other web-based e-mail providers. Click the Back button to set up a different e-mail account, or see other options for accessing your web-based e-mail.

• When you try to use a Windows Live e-mail account or a different Web-based e-mail account in Windows Mail, you cannot send or receive e-mail messages.

After you opt in to Automatic Learning in Windows Vista, you experience the following symptoms:

• The Handwriting recognition personalization tool does not gather some English text from the message bodies of e-mail messages in Windows Mail.
• The Handwriting recognition personalization tool incorrectly gathers non-English text from the message bodies of e-mail messages in Windows Mail.

You experience this problem when you use Windows Vista on a Tablet PC.