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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can now combine Power Virtual Agents and the Azure Bot Framework Composer Your email has been sent New tools make it easy for low code users and pro code developers to work together on a project ...

Skype group program manager Lilian Rincon at Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco today. Skype is getting the power of the Cortana virtual assistant thanks to Microsoft’s new bot framework, ...