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Thursday, May 26, 2016

"Rowe": Microsoft News Bot

Microsoft Creates a News Bot ‘Rowe’ to compete with Google News

Microsoft yesterday introduced its new news reading bot powered by Bing, called Rowe. These bots are mostly in the preview mode across platforms like Kik, Skype, and Telegram, and have...

Nitish Shaw | May 26, 2016



[Blogger's note: Rowe is a bot component of the Microsoft News Pro app.]
Microsoft yesterday introduced its new news reading bot powered by Bing, called Rowe. These bots are mostly in the preview mode across platforms like Kik, Skype, and Telegram, and have a long way to go before being released globally. The initial bots like Vision, Caption and Murphy were released on 30th March 2016.
These bots attempt to modify web searching. For example, Murphy is for “What if” questions and Caption bot is for captioning the images. 

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"Alongside Rowe, Microsoft is also adding Groups to News Pro with the latest update. As you may already guess, with the Groups feature, you will be able to share an article with your colleagues and friends in a group." Source: http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-releases-news-pro-2-0-ios-adds-built-news-bot/

<more at http://www.pc-tablet.co.in/microsoft-creates-news-bot-rowe-compete-google-news/29883/; related articles and links: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/microsoft-tries-its-hand-at-a-news-bot-with-rowe/ (Microsoft tries its hand at a news bot with Rowe. May 25, 2016) and http://www.marketnewsrelease.com/bots-for-the-future-microsoft-launches-rowe-an-interestingly-peculiar-news-bot-31300.html (Bots for the future: Microsoft launches Rowe, an interestingly peculiar news bot. May 25, 2016)>

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