I’ve finally been able to finish and put up the revamped company website. Check it out at Homres Consulting.

I haven’t had good reason to blog about for quite some time now. That is, until my aunt came into the office and told us about what our president has recently said at the 10th year anniversary of Microsoft Philippines. Apparently, Ms. President thanked Microsoft for developing a Filipino version of their famous Windows OS called ‘Bintana’. She goes on to say that this ‘Bintana’ will cost lower than the usual price of the OS. This comment has sparked a discussion about the topic on the Microsoft Philippines Forum.

News has it that the Microsoft exec himself briefed Madam President about this news but as this article reports this is what he has to say :

“There is no [Bintana] product but there is a local language initiative that we’re working on,” Javier said in a separate telephone interview. He said that Microsoft had briefed Arroyo about the local language program, which was cited by Ayson in his online post in a local forum. But Microsoft did not in any way tell her about a lower-cost Filipino version of Windows, which Arroyo termed “Bintanaâ€? in her speech at the anniversary celebration.

He also added that they …