Microsoft buys AI scheduling tool Genee to create Office 365 smarter

Microsoft has acquired another productivity app announcing the acquisition of AI-powered scheduling tool Genee. In a blog post today the cheap microsoft office 2016 giant said it will be plugging Genee into its cloud productivity suite, Office 365. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"As we continue to build new buy office 2010 productivity capabilities and services our customers value, I'm confident the Genee team will let us further our ambition to create intelligence into every digital experience," writes Rajesh Jha, CVP of Outlook and Office 365.

Genee launched in public beta a year ago, offering an end-to-end scheduling tool that integrates with calendar apps and email providers to accept strain from arranging meetings.

The app works by being buy windows 8 in emails, and taking advantage of natural language processing to parse the items in the email to know the key requirements for that meeting ?a after which automatically delivering a meeting invite on your behalf. So it's arguably an early illustration of the AI-powered chatbots now springing up all over the place. There are a set of standard commands Genee understands automatically but users may also create their own custom commands.