Syncing Addresses, Calendar, & Tasks with Windows?

DJDaveET asks: "I'm a Windows XP user who has embraced OS X as an additional tool in my arsenal. It's a wonderful OS and the machine is a joy to use. My one major problem is thus -- currently, I'm a heavy Outlook user on my two Windows boxes. I use Outlook to manage my email, my contacts, my tasks, my calendar, etc. I currently use the fusionOne service to keep those two computers and my Samsung I300 phone all in sync with one another. I need to have that same information on my PowerBook. I don't really care what applications they go into, as long as they're all available. Integrated would be wonderful. I'm not in a position to be able to completely abandon my Windows boxes, so I'd like the Mac to play well with the others. How can I keep the data all in sync? What apps should I use on the Mac for the appropriate parts -- email, tasks, calendar, contacts, etc?"

Comments

Re:I have the same problem

[Lars T.]

Top Story: Further Microsoft clarification on Exchange client for Mac.

Here is the official word:

Microsoft is in the early stages of developing an Exchange-based solution.

Re:What about iCal for the PC???

[extra88]

We'll have to see what iSync brings to the mix but currently iCal can "Publish & Subscribe" to calendars using .Mac or any WebDAV server for the publishing part. Outlook for Windows (2000 and newer I think) also has a calendar publishing feature which I believe uses a compatible format. However this will not lead to synchronizing because I think the published calendars will be treated as someone else's calendar, even if you were the one publishing from the other machine.

I believe the file format used when publishing is open so writing a client to publish and subscribe to them should be doable. I would expect to see this added to Evolution if there's demand for it.