One of the more fascinating trends of this past year was the move to conversational computing. Instead of building complex apps, using bots over services like Facebook’s Messenger or Microsoft’s Skype ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A year after the launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework, today Microsoft ...

A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

At today's Build 2016 keynote, Microsoft announced a platform for building bots called the Bot Framework. The new platform supports both C# and Node.js, although demos were in C#. Microsoft is getting ...

Microsoft today is introducing the Bot Framework, a new tool in preview to help developers build their own chatbots for their applications. There is also a new bot directory full of sample bots — like ...

At its Build developer conference last year, Microsoft introduced the Bot Framework, offering developers the means to easily create interactive and 'intelligent' tools and assistants, as part of its ...

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Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to roll out new bot-related programming interfaces and possibly new chatbots of its own at its F8 developer conference. Microsoft recently used its own Build developer ...