With Microsoft's "Ultimate Steal" program launching today, I thought it was appropriate to base today's "MyFive" on Office 2007! Here are five reasons why I love the new Microsoft Office 2007.

1. Ribbon Toolbar - The new ribbon toolbar in Office 2007 replaces the traditional menus and toolbars, and it's awesome - once you get used to it of course.  If you're used
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A few days ago I claimed that ReNamer was the best free file renamer available, and Mouser over at Donation Coder decided to prod their readers to see if they had come across any that were better. One member, iphigenie, mentioned a program called

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So I thought this would be a good time

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Microsoft is doing all they can to stop people from pirating their software, especially students. College students today are more tech savvy than ever, and a good handful know how to go about getting software like Microsoft Office 2007 illegally.  Sure, it may take them some time to download the software and find a crack, but they do it willingly because it's free.

Last week, Netscape posted an announcement that they were calling it quits with their "Digg-Clone" social media site. They said that after a study, they found that people didn't associate the Netscape brand with socially controlled news, therefore they were moving on. They also promised though, that their social news site would be around, just not at the Netscape.com domain. Soon Netscape users will be forwarded to a more traditional type of web page

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