Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Phones worldwide at an exclusive event in NYC hosted by Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. The devices announced today ship with Windows Mobile 6.5, which has been a long time coming.

One of the applications that was announced today at the event was My Phone, which was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress (Our first impressions. My phone is a free service that helps people manage, backup, restore, synchronize data between PC’s, and share information from their Windows phone directly to Microsoft’s secure My Phone servers .