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 ...

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 ...

The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week. The integration means Microsoft Bot Framework users will be able to make bots ...

Since Microsoft announced the Bot Framework at its 2016 developer conference, over 130,000 developers have signed up to use it. The company is now expanding it further, with new capabilities. At its ...

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made a big push for its bot development tools and the idea of "conversation as a service." Since then, things have gone a bit quiet. But it ...

Microsoft just announced the Bot Framework – a platform for developers to create and integrate intelligent bots into their apps. No wonder it launched Tay last week. It’s a lot like Facebook’s M, ...

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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 ...