Microsoft offers easy access to HomeShop18.com

MUMBAI: Shopping portal HomeShop18.com has partnered with Microsoft to bring its offers closer to its online customers.

As part of the deal, HomeShop18.com users can browse the website faster through a one click access system, using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9. All customers who upgrade to Internet Explorer 9 and pin HomeShop18.com to their IE9 browser will get a free gift voucher and easy access to the shopping portal from their desktop taskbar.

Additionally, users can simply right click the taskbar icon for quick access lists, also called Jumplists.

HomeShop18 founder and CEO Sundeep Malhotra said, “We feel proud to partner with Microsoft to offer easy access to our e-commerce portal HomeShop18.com. With this association, we wish to introduce further unique technological benefits in order to strengthen our customer interface. Keeping all the consumer needs in mind, we have announced the association with Microsoft.‘‘

Microsoft India director – product marketing Senthilkumar Sundaram said, “Through this association, we have made it simple and fun for Homeshop18.com subscribers to get one-click access to their favorite shopping site with Internet Explorer 9. We are confident that Indians will love this all new immersive browsing experience.”

Going forward, Microsoft and HomeShop18.com plan to collaboratively offer advanced applications and features like offering HTML5 based premium online shopping delight to the consumers.