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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”.

There have been a number of discussions about Push Notification connections and in particular the “OK/Received/Connected/Active” and “OK/Received/Temporarily Disconnected/Active” states.  We’d like to take a few moments in this blog post to review how the connections work.

As indicated in the MSDN documentation, there are a number of Push Notification Service Response Codes.

Conventional web pages are rarely optimized to be viewed on phones. , That’s why pinch and zoom is enabled when we browse those web on phones. The ability to enlarge web content is a behavior we expect when we use a mobile browser, however when we interact with a mobile app that expectation is no longer true. So, take caution when embedding web content in your application. However, if you must do this, then follow these precautions: and lists five situations to avoid when doing it.

I’m very excited to share with this blog community, that our Windows Phone engineering team has hit a very meaningful milestone; one that we’re calling technical preview. We are certainly not done yet – but the craftsmen (and women) of our team have signed off that our software is now ready for the hands-on everyday use of a broad set of consumers around the world – and we’re looking forward to their feedback in the coming weeks, so that we can finish the best Windows Phone release ever together.