Today: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools ready

All the tools, in its final version, that developers may need are available for free today: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone, Windows Phone Emulator, Microsoft Express Blend for Windows Phone and XNA Game Studio 4.0. In other words the best proven tools for PC development, available also for phone development. Find more information here directly from Microsoft. And to match, get the Windows Phone 7 Training Kit for Developers, and don't forget to get the 69-page UI Design and Interaction Guide. Now, let's enjoy once more the creative process...

And now, to top it off all, a great browser

Today Microsoft made available to IT specialists and enthusiasts the new IE 9 (Beta version), which promises to be a great contender to other great browsers as Firefox and even Google Chrome. This latest version of this resurgent browser promises to "unleash a more beautiful web" by starting to use the newest Web standards like HTML5 and hardware acceleration that takes advantage of the graphics processor power in Windows 7 and Windows Vista (sorry, I does not run in Windows XP, and why should it?). The fish tank demo will run in all browsers, as it is supposed to be, but can you, for example, get 60 frames per second? Only in IE 9.