You can now combine Power Virtual Agents and the Azure Bot Framework Composer Your email has been sent New tools make it easy for low code users and pro code ...

The company also launched two features in Azure Cognitive Search — Private Endpoints and Managed Identities — plus enhancements to Bot Framework Composer and the broader Azure Bot Service.

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's Virtual Assistant Accelerator and Bot Framework Composer tools are now generally available. And developers can now use Bot Framework to create new Alexa skills.

Bot Framework Composer is an open-source tool for visual bot development. The tool is available as a desktop application for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as a web-based component.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Azure-based services are a good place to start with conversational computing, even outside Microsoft environments ...