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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...