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2. Introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework

Stephan Bisser1  
(1)
Gratwein, Austria
 

In March 2016, Microsoft announced the public preview of a project, originating from FUSE Labs, a group within Microsoft focusing on real-time and media-rich experiences, called the Microsoft Bot Framework. The main focus of this product was to provide what bot developers needed to build intelligent and interactive bots. Soon after that, the Bot Framework SDK version 3 has been made generally available, and a lot of developers started using this framework to build comprehensive bots. Almost two and a half years later, Microsoft released ...

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