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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's no shortage of frameworks available for building chatbots (bots), and Microsoft has been working hard to ensure they make it easy for developers to build bots that work across a variety of ...