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Window Phone Radio number 32 is for all the developers or wannabe developers! Ben Lower and Larry Lieberman from the developer evangelism team come by the studio to talk about Windows Phone developers and some of the cool new things coming in Mango. Ben and Larry have great advice for new or veteran developers looking at Windows Phone apps. In fact, they say developing for Windows Phone is much easier than developing apps for other smartphone operating systems. Taking their advice, I have signed up to try my hand at developing an application for Windows Phone. Deadline? End of August.

There certainly appears to be more than a little enthusiasm for browser numbers these days, and it’s great to see early adopters adopting the latest browsers across the industry. With Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4.0, and Chrome 10 all hitting their final releases recently, drawing instant comparisons around downloads or initial usage is a natural temptation, but unfortunately you can’t do it quite yet. Here’s why.

Sometimes you need a guide. Today, the Web Standards Sherpa is launching. The site brings together web experts across the community and invites web developers and designers to "receive feedback, glean advice and learn best practices from experts in the field to help them improve the quality of their own work.”

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.