Visual Studio Code developers can now leverage the power of Microsoft's AI-driven Bot Framework with a new extension developed by Microsoft and Stack Overflow, the popular programming Q&A site. The ...

The Bot Framework SDK also is better integrated with Microsoft Teams now, officials said. Last but not least, Microsoft has enabled the Bot Framework (using the SDK 4.8 or later) to connect to Alexa.

Microsoft may be ready to rev up (again) its conversation as a service strategy, with new additions to its bot-framework toolset.