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+# Microsoft Bot Framework Composer 
+
+## Overview 
+
+Bot Framework Composer provides a tool for 1st and 3rd party professional conversation creators with an extensible framework to build compelling Conversational AI solutions for Microsoft customers. 
+
+It provides 
+* a professional tool to enables multi-disciplinary team of professional conversation creators to create, edit and refine dialogs 
+* a dialog authoring user experience for OBI standard file formats (Dialogs, dialog steps, etc) to allow users to create and edit dialogs to create 
+  * Reusable dialog components 
+  * Standalone bots for Enterprise scenarios (ISV/SIs), or 
+  * Bot-building solutions for customers (MCS)
+  * An extensible solution to enhance bot creation experience and support custom dialog types and editors 
+
+## Download and Install 
+
+* After you download the source code, follow the [instructions here](https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/tree/master/Composer#instructions) to install and run on local Desktop 
+
+## Architecture 
+* [Composer architecture design](https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/blob/master/Doc/architecure.md)
+
+## Components 
+* [Composer Shell](https://github.com/boydc2014/composer-prototype/)
+* Editor 
+* [Bot Project](https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/tree/master/BotProject) 
+
+## Related projects
+* [Microsoft Open Bot initiative (OBI)](https://github.com/Microsoft/botframework-obi)
+
 # Contributing
 
 This project welcomes contributions and suggestions.  Most contributions require you to agree to a