INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In a world dominated by Alexa and the Google Assistant, Cortana suffers the fate of a perfectly good alternative that nobody uses and
But Microsoft wouldn''t be Microsoft if it just gave up on its investment in this space, so it now launching the Cortana Skills Kit for
Enterprise to see if that a niche where Cortana can succeed.
This new kit is an end-to-end solution for enterprises that want to build their
Of course, they could have done this before using the existing developer tools
This kit isn''t all that different from those, after all
Microsoft notes that it is designed for deployment inside an organization and represents a new platform for them to build these
experiences.
The Skills Kit platform is based on the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Azure Cognitive Services Language Understanding
feature.
Overall, this is probably not a bad bet on Microsoft part
I can see how some enterprises would want to build their own skills for their employees and customers to access internal data, for example,
or to complete routine tasks.
For now, this tool is only available in private preview
No word on when we can expect a wider launch.
