Joe Belfiore

If you’re a Web developer and want to see what your sites will look like on IE9 Mobile, you can download the Windows Phone developer tools today and try it out for yourself, since we include IE9 Mobile with the default emulator installation.

In fact, we’ve been pretty busy getting ready for the upcoming Mango release too, and we’d like to share some of the work we’ve done with the community in preparation for Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Phone “Mango”.

I thought I would drop in quickly before the Memorial Day weekend here in the states to remind folks we published Windows Phone Radio 29 on Tuesday this week. The show featured a special guest interview with corporate vice president in Windows Phone, Joe Belfiore. If you have not had a chance to tune in, you can find the episode in the Zune Marketplace, iTunes and streaming direct here.

MIX10 officially begins tomorrow in Las Vegas. MIX is an annual event we put on for designers and developers to learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools. Essentially we’re bringing a bunch of designers and developers together to talk about bringing together the clients, servers and cloud services to create great rich web applications.

What an exciting week this week will be! I won’t be attending MIX10 myself this year, so I will be joining the many who could not attend by watching MIX10 unfold online – and live.

Here is a brief chat with Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and designers about how they think about design overall and how TED inspires them to utilize the ideas they take away from the conference to influence the design of products at Microsoft. The featured Windows Phone product members include Joe Belfiore, Albert Shum, Jae Park, Don Coyner, and Teresa Goertz.