Not only have Microsoft's Bot Framework and Service been updated, but new AI functionality and language capabilities have been introduced for apps that leverage Azure Cognitive Services as well.

Azure Functions currently has this capability for some Azure services, such as "Blob Storage, Event Hub, Service Bus, [and] Storage Tables," according to Microsoft's announcement.

Azure Bot Service has new features for developers making conversational AI experiences in the cloud. In all, near 100 new features are being released in areas of language understanding, bots ...

The Azure Bot Service will enable developers to "build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking - from your app or website to text/sms ...

Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service has now been used by almost 300,000 developers. That’s up from 240,000 in December 2017, a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. The new figure was ...

When using the Azure Bot-as-a-Service offering, developers only pay for the resources their app consumes. This includes the compute related to Azure Functions and any Cognitive Services API calls ...

A typical Azure Bot Service provisioning process includes choosing the type of bot, subscription, location, language SDK (C# or Node.js), pricing tier, and bot template, which can be language ...

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available ...

Two cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Azure Health Bot Service were discovered by a team of researchers, which could have led to access to sensitive health data. A new report shared ...

The Bot Service provides an environment where these conversational bots can interact with customers on multiple channels across any device. Channels include Cortana, Facebook Messenger, and Skype.