I have no idea what you guys are talking about, when you send a link in an email, don't you just copy and paste it in? If you email program isn't sending emails, that is a whole different issue than not being able to send a link. Can you send any email to anybody else? Vista is not rocket science people. Some stuff is in different places, and some alarms are annoying, but you can turn them off. I have been able to run every program I used to (which is a lot) and do everything needed. Lastly, the biggest mistake people make when getting a Vista box is buying a box which is hardware spec'd right. Vista runs sweetest with over 2GB of RAM. If you are trying to run with less than that, you have no chance for success. Also if you are trying to run Aero interface when you don't have a system that is good enough for it, it will bog. So turn it off.
I've had no problems with Vista. Of course, I'm not super-picky when it comes to operating systems. I like Mac OS X best, but since Windows became stable (around Windows 2000 or so), I really don't care whether I use Mac OS or Windows.
Yes, that's how I do it, but the link is never "live" after I paste it in. In other words, the link doesn't turn blue so someone else can just click on it and go to the site. It's just the URL address, which the recipient of your email then has to paste into the address bar and hit "enter" to see. I frankly don't know if it's Vista causing this problem, or the email program you get with it. As I said, I just bought a new computer, and the operating system and email program are both different from what I was using, which was Windows XP and Outlook Express.
I'm impressed as well, not that I want to run Windows 7, or any other version of Windows, on a Pentium 2, or any other computer, but that is still impressive.