Visual Studio Startup Error

For those who can not see the news channel on Visual Studio's start page, you can try to change the value "Tools->Options->Environment->Startup->Start Page news channel" from
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=45332&clcid=409
to the new one
http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/vstudio/rss.xml
It could be weird because these two links actually point to same page, however the firewall or something else blocked visual studio from accessing it.