Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft confirmed today at the Japanese Microsoft Developer Forum 2011 tomorrow’s WP7 Mango preview event. He referred to it as the “Mango launch event”. He also told the audience that they “came to market with Windows Phone about a year later than” he wished they had.
You can catch the reference to the 500 additional features to be added at the 0:50 point. The features we are currently aware of are:Â IE9, Fast app switching, Twitter Integration + Messenger, Turn-by-turn navigation, Dictation support, Unified Inbox, Bing Audio/Vision, New languages, Podcast support on Zune and Smart DJ, to name a few.
Windows Phone 7 is also set to arrive in Japan Mango ready later this year.