HTC has just announced that they will be supporting the Windows 8 phone going forward in 2012. Building on the two companies’ long mobile partnership dating back to 2000 and including more than 40 million phones sold, HTC will be bringing the models of Windows Phone 8 smartphones to market later this year. 2010 was a rocky year for the Windows Phone initial release, with many pundits claiming they rushed it to market too quickly, but there have been many improvements when in comes to mobile in the new OS.

“We have seen great momentum for Windows Phone since its launch in 2010, with 100,000 apps now in the Marketplace”, said Terry Myerson, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone at Microsoft. “HTC is one of our closest partners and we share a common goal in driving people-centric innovation, which makes it easy to work together. We can’t wait to see how HTC brings Windows Phone 8 to its product portfolio”.