Bots as a service come to Microsoft's Azure – WinBeta

Lili Cheng, a Distinguished Engineer at the Artificial Intelligence and Research Group has taken to the Microsoft Azure Blog to announce the new Azure Bot Service. The announcement comes after the launch of the Bot Framework on Github in March, and marks a way for Microsoft to make it easier for software developers to get started creating a bot. The Azure Bot Service will become the first public cloud bot-service powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework and serverless compute in Microsoft Azure. According to Lili Cheng, "With this cloud service, you can build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking." Bots will also scale based on demand, meaning you will only pay for the resources your bots consume.