The 3-day Las Vegas event starts on Monday. On Tuesday, IE head Dean Hachamovitch is slated to talk IE 9 and I would not be surprised at all if actual code is offered up this time. Microsoft offered a concise sight of IE 9 in November, highlighting its capability to use hardware acceleration for enhanced text and graphics picture.

On the phone front, Microsoft has already tipped its hand on the basics of writing software for its new mobile OS, confirming last week that XNA and Silverlight will be the means of developing software that works on the Windows Phone 7 Series devices that start shipping later this year.

There are more than a 12 sessions on the topic and Microsoft has promised that—even though accessible Windows Mobile apps will not as expected run on the new phones--Microsoft would likes to make it as simple as possible for developers to start writing code for the new OS.