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A personalised desktop portal that focuses onbusiness intelligence and knowledge management.Microsoft's version has a launch screen including stockquotes, voice mail and e-mail messages, a calendar, a weatherforecast, traffic information, access to news feeds, customerand sales data, and Internet conferences. A digital dashboardmight previously have been thought of as an executiveinformation system. In the future, digital dashboards couldbe available on personal digital assistants and cellularphones.["Gates pitches 'digital dashboards' to bevy of top CEOs", BobTrott, pub. InfoWorld Electric, 1999-05-19].