At noon on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless exclusively began selling the HTC One M8 for Windows, a mouthful that boils down to an HTC One phone that runs the Windows Phone operating system, according to PC World.

The device can be had for under $100 through Verizon's website, and it comes preloaded with Verizon's NFL Mobile, which lets users stream games. Users can pay $30 per month to get the phone through Verizon's Edge service.

There has been no word to this point as to when Verizon's period of exclusivity ends.

HTC did little to change the physical specifications of the One in the change from Android to Windows. When the Android One was released earlier this year, USA Today called the phone "one of the finest Android devices out there."

Both Ones have screens that are 5 inches and come in full 1080p LCD. The One has a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2GB of RAM and a microSD slot.

The One also has two rear-facing UltraPixel cameras and a 5MP front-facing camera, as well as its BoomSound internal speakers.

The one difference between the previous version of the HTC One and the new phone -- hardware-wise -- is that the Windows version comes with 32GB of internal storage, while the previous version had 16GB and 32GB options.

The newly released One runs Windows Phone 8.1.1, which features Cortana, Microsoft's take on Apple's Siri. A neat feature of the One is an infrared port that allows the phone double as a remote control for your TV, similar to the Android version.

HTC's transition from Android to Windows on the One could signal the start of a trend in the mobile industry: releasing devices on one operating system then releasing them on another.

HTC hasn't said how long it took to adapt the One hardware to fit Windows phone, but reports say Microsoft helped ease the transition.