Apple's Mobile Me PC synchronization

Since I started work, I've been forced back into using a Windows PC on a daily basis. Not that I'm thrilled; actually I'm fairly ambivalent about it, the Windows PC does it's job fine. But since I'm using one at work every day, I thought that I would set my old Windows XP machine up and tinker around with it a little. So last night I dusted it off and plugged it in for the first time in about a year. The first thing that I immediately noticed, was how much faster my new 24" iMac is at everything that it does than this ~4 year old Windows PC. When I built this PC it was no slouch either; I built it to play games on. That being said, I thought that I would use my resurrection of the Windows PC as an opportunity to test something that I have been curious about...the new features of apple's mobile me online service that let you sync your mac to everything else that you want sync it with, including your Windows Vista or XP machine. So after all of the software updates and what not that a year of sitting on the sidelines signs you up for, I set about syncing my Windows machine with my mobile me (formerly .mac) account. So I had it sync my bookmarks with Apple's Safari for Windows and my calendar and address book with MS Outlook. I was expecting a catastrophe, but to my surprise, everything went flawlessly. The bookmarks are perfectly in sync between Safari on my macs and Safari on my pc. The Calendars on my mac were imported as sub-calendars of the main calendar in Outlook, and there are no errors. Contacts were also synced perfectly between the Address Book on the mac and the Outlook Contacts. I will provide this disclaimer, I did not do anything too fancy. I cleaned out my old outlook .pst file, and had the mobile me sync control panel replace all the data on the Windows PC with the stuff from the mobile me server. But, at the end of the day, everything works perfectly! Adding your mobile me or .mac mail accounts to Outlook is a piece of cake too, because Apple uses the well supported IMAP mail protocol on their servers. So, to make a long story short, from my view, Apple has succeeded in clearing a major hurdle with people who may be considering switching from a PC to a mac, and that is letting them access all of their important data on their mac, from a Windows PC. There is even a client for accessing your idisk on your Windows machine. Kudos to Apple for a job well done. All I need now is an iphone to complete my mobile me syncing experience. Too bad they are not available here in Guam :-(