Cesar de la Torre

Principal Program Manager at the Azure team.

Silverlight 3.0 news disclosed today at MIX09 in Las Vegas!!!

So, I’ve just been attending MIX09 keynote (ScottGu, etc.), and… as you’ll discover, Silverlight 3.0 rocks!!! :-) Here you have some of what we’re disclosing today about SL3.0: SILVERLIGHT 3.0 MEDIA & GRAPHICS GPU hardware acceleration!! Opt-in feature per element Codecs (H.264/AAC/MP4, VC1, etc.) Perspective 3D Bitmap & ...

How to create a Bootable DVD (Windows 7 or Windows Vista)

Sometimes you'd want to install Windows from a bootable DVD but you just have all the Windows files... I mean, in my case I've got Windows 7 build 7048 (beta drop, but it does not matter), but I currently don't have its related ISO image. So, if I want to install a plain new Windows 7 from scratch (booting  & installing from a DVD), ...

Microsoft Event – ‘Saving Costs with Microsoft development platform’

Next March 11th we’ll deliver in Madrid (NH Eurobuilding Hotel) an event about how to save costs in these uncertain economic time. We’ll see why Microsoft is more productive and has better TCO than competing technologies like Java. Keep in mind that the audience should be ITDMs, I mean, IT Directors, development area directors, or ...