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.

Microsoft announced a few Azure milestones today and showcased developer options to tap into its new compute capabilities.

Microsoft is making a preview available of its Azure cloud bot-as-a-service, which is built on top of Azure Functions serverless compute capability.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Enterprise developers can build production-grade AI chatbots for their businesses with the general availability releases of Azure Bot Service and the Language Understanding service.

Microsoft said its Azure bot service is the first public-cloud offering to offer Microsoft’s bot framework, which works in conjunction with Azure’s serverless-compute service.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, international hospital group Mediclinic needed a fast and safe way to give patients, staff and visitors access to clinics. For this, it turned to technology partner ...