The bot as the first line of defense Microsoft’s Bot Framework was the big surprise of BUILD 2016. Or wasn’t. The company found itself in hot water before the show thanks to a bot, Tay.ai ...

Microsoft Research, its Developer Experience team and its Applications and Services Group are all building out pieces of the company's evolving bot platform. Here's what's under the hood.

Microsoft's Virtual Assistant Accelerator and Bot Framework Composer tools are now generally available. And developers can now use Bot Framework to create new Alexa skills.

Microsoft’s Bot Framework is designed to help you build and deploy chat-based bots across a range of services, including non-Microsoft platforms and through open web and SMS gateways, with ...

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 ...

A year after the launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework, today Microsoft announced that its toolkit for creating bots is now used by over 130,000 developers. This number is up from the 45,000 ...

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.

Nadella then introduced the Microsoft Bot Framework, which lets developers build intelligent bots that work anywhere users are – text/SMS, Skype, Slack, Office 365 email, and more.

Visual Studio Code developers can now leverage the power of Microsoft's AI-driven Bot Framework with a new extension developed by Microsoft and Stack Overflow, the popular programming Q&A site.

However, Microsoft hopes that its Cognitive Services and Bot Framework will allow the design of next-generation applications that use AI to interact more intuitively with users.