Microsoft Bot Framework is now used by over 130,000 developers

A year after the launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework, today Microsoft announced that its toolkit for creating bots is now used by over 130,000 developers.
The developer number was announced together with a series of new features for the framework, including a way to make payments inside bots and the ability to publish bots to Skype for Business, the Bing search engine, and the Cortana intelligent assistant.
The news was announced today at Build, Microsoft’s annua