{"id":54546,"date":"2016-04-04T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=54546"},"modified":"2016-04-15T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:40:56","slug":"bot-bots-more-bots-microsoft-build-2016-why-microsoft-wants-to-help-developers-build-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/04\/04\/bot-bots-more-bots-microsoft-build-2016-why-microsoft-wants-to-help-developers-build-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot, bots, & more bots! Microsoft Build 2016 — “Why Microsoft wants to help developers build bots”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft Build: the 10 most important announcements<\/strong><\/a> — from theverge.com by Ben Popper and Dieter Bohn
\nHere come the bots!<\/p>\n

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Every year, Microsoft holds a developer event called “Build.” And recently, those events have gone from snoozers to exciting showcases. Microsoft has a winner with Windows 10 (as long as you ignore the phones), a robust personal assistant in Cortana (that works just fine on a laptop), and a wild holographic future to plan with HoloLens. It’s a lot to take in, and at this year’s Build Microsoft we got updates on all of it. And a few surprises.<\/p>\n

Going in, we weren\u2019t totally sure what would be coming next for Windows 10, but it turns out there\u2019s a lot that Microsoft has planned. It\u2019s not just that there are new apps, there are also new bots, which will help people handle all sorts of small tasks. In fact, those bots and Microsoft\u2019s vision of how they should work stole the entire show. <\/strong>Windows, Xbox: you\u2019re cool, but the future is bots.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Why Microsoft wants to help developers build bots<\/strong><\/a> — from pcworld.com by Blair Hanley Frank
\nConversations are cross-platform and mobile, even when Windows 10 Mobile isn’t winning<\/em><\/p>\n

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is pushing developers\u00a0to create virtual assistants and intelligent chatbots<\/a> to help users do everything from managing their calendars to booking hotel reservations.<\/p>\n

To that end, Microsoft has published a new Bot Framework<\/a>, which makes it easier to build chatbots using either C# or Node.js. Working with the tools isn’t so easy that anyone could do it, but they can help reduce some of the difficulties of conversing with a computer.<\/p>\n

It was one of the main announcements from Nadella’s keynote address at Microsoft’s Build developer conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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