The Redmond based giant has announced it is bringing together the Skype Bot Platform and the Microsoft Bot Framework into one framework called Microsoft Bot Framework V3. This will enable users to develop bots which use new Skype platform features and publish to multiple channels from one place
Microsoft has announced new features for its Skype Bot platform. The update includes the ability of bots to respond to group conversations, create visual cards, third-party authentication and more. Starting today, developers will have access to the latest update of the Microsoft Bot Framework.
The Redmond based giant has announced it is bringing together the Skype Bot Platform and the Microsoft Bot Framework into one framework called Microsoft Bot Framework V3. This will enable users to develop bots which use new Skype platform features and publish to multiple channels from one place.
Microsoft Bot Framework update will enable Skype Bots to become a part of group conversations. Also, users can now create visual cards like image, carousels, and receipts.
Skype Bot will enable third-party authentication, which allows users to sign in right on a card, make transactions and bookings without leaving Skype.“Skype has collaborated with Bing to showcase a preview of Bing Entity and Intent detection so that natural language understanding is built right into Skype Bots,” Skype’s Lilian Rincon said in a blogpost.
The Skype Bot Platform was announced in March with over 30,000 developers building bots. Facebook unveiled bots for Messenger at its F8 conference in April. The platform currently has more than 11,000 active bots. Microsoft’s future is totally dependent on success of its ‘Conversation as a platform” bot framework. Microsoft differs from other AI majors by creating a platform rather than a product.
