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 ...

At its Build Conference 2016, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Bot Framework, stating that it "provides "everything you need to build and connect your bots to your users wherever they converse - from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The future is going to be full of people talking to chatbots, says Microsoft, and it wants to help you build one.

Microsoft wants everyone to develop their own bots. The idea seems scary and the company knows it too, but it envisions a future that is not about "man versus machine," but "man with machines." Today ...

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 ...