I have been using Vista for over a year now, and it has been a pleasant experience. I saw an article in the newspaper (yes, I read a daily newspaper on real newsprint) that said that Vista was less stable than XP. It is simply not true. I was just reminded of this a few minutes ago. I was trying to forward an email using Outlook. There was a problem viewing the email, so I should have been suspicious of it. When I tried to forward it, Outlook hung. When I tried to close the forwarding window, I got a popup window that Outlook had stopped w