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Two handy and much-anticipated new Microsoft apps for Windows Phone were headed to Marketplace this week. Here’s a peek:

SkyDrive

If you woke up this morning, checked your phone’s Office Hub, and didn’t see some of your OneNote notebooks or Office docs—don’t panic. As the Windows Live team explained on its blog yesterday, a recent SkyDrive upgrade is causing some Windows Phone owners to see a message saying their Office documents were deleted from the SkyDrive servers or can’t be downloaded.

If you’re curious about the future of SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud-based storage service, on Windows Phone, check out Mike Torres’s new post this morning on the Inside Windows Live blog.  Mike details some of the sweet SkyDrive-related changes in store for Mango, our next release arriving this fall. In Mango, for example, you’ll be able to:

We received a fantastic round of entries for last week’s contest to win sponsorship to the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans (original contest post here), April 14-16. Several great bloggers posted rich “how to” content on Windows 7 and Windows Live, which made judging this contest extremely difficult.

Calling all Mom Bloggers: this is your chance to win a conference pass, plus travel and expenses to one of the top female blog conferences of 2011! Windows is proud to be working with such a fine community of influential moms and to show our appreciation we’re providing sponsorship for one lucky winner to attend the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans, April 14-16. If you’re a mom who blogs then you’re likely looking at ways to build your business and online profile. Mom 2.0 is a great opportunity to network, share best practices and develop a stronger social presence.

With the announcement of the release to web for Internet Explorer 9, we are confident that IT pros will see Internet Explorer 9 as the best browser for business customers.

We’ve previously covered our philosophy of putting sites at the center. This starts with the point of view that users go to their browser to visit sites, not for the browser itself. The browser should give sites the tools to build more engaging user experiences without getting in the way.

Our friends over on the Office Blogs have just posted a handy rundown for students on how to take class notes on your phone and sync them to Windows Live SkyDrive—perfect for those moments when you’re stuck in class (or a meeting) without a laptop.  Check out the post.

Their post also made me curious: Where else have you found OneNote handy on your phone? What are your favorite OneNote tips?

Mike

Last week, we shared our perspective on what it means for a browser to be all around fast.  By harnessing the full power of the PC, Internet Explorer 9 Beta enables sites to create new types of web site.  In this post, we talk to Myspace about what an all around fast browser means for their site.

Ben Rudolph and I recently visited four fantastic mom bloggers known as the Blogging Angels in New York for a podcast to talk about Windows.