A few years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made its conversation as a service (CaaS) offerings the centerpiece of its announcements. This year, Microsoft made some solid advancements ...

In the past year, Microsoft has introduced quite a few machine learning-based offerings that leverage its Azure Cognitive Services APIs. These include Azure Form Recognizer and a Garage project dubbed ...

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 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 author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. The future is going to ...

On March 30th, during the BUILD 2016 keynote presentation, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about “Conversations as a platform.” That means conversations between two or more people, between people ...

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 ...

Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.