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Digital Dashboards and Outlook 2000—An Information Management Container

Outlook 2000 has been updated to work with Web-formatted data. We are rapidly becoming a world where the Internet is the dominant data exchange medium and the formats used on the Web are becoming the standards by which we work with and communicate information. Outlook can work with Internet-based information from several sources, as well as call upon its own data sources (email, calendar, tasks, contacts, personal files, and so on) to provide a consolidated information view. This consolidated view is known as a digital dashboard.

Outlook works with its own data stores, with group and corporate data stores (via Exchange), and with Internet-based information. All of these information ...