Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:40AM from the bot-is-the-new-cool dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report on VentureBeat: Microsoft today is introducing the Bot Framework, a new tool in preview to help developers build their own chatbots for their applications. Using this, anyone can create a text program that they can chat with. A BotBuilder software-development kit (SDK) is available on GitHub under an open-source MIT license. These bots can be implemented into a variety of applications, including Slack or Telegram or even email. "Bots are like new applications," Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said. "And digital assistants are meta apps, or like the new browsers. And intelligence is infused into all of your interactions. That's the rich platform that we have." Microsoft will want to tread carefully.

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What?!? by c · 2016-03-30 06:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Fucking hell, Slashdot... April 1st is still a couple days away!

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1. Re:What?!? by Locke2005 · 2016-03-30 07:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It would be the first product Microsoft made that DIDN'T suck!!!
  
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MS already has a bot framework by Hentes · 2016-03-30 07:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

MS already has a bot framework, it's called XP.
Oh, not that sort of bot?