@johnpapola "It's most certainly a slam against IE7... but I really have no idea how you consider this a slam against Windows USERS." Technically, you're absolutely right.  I was trying to communicate that Apple seems to put less into satisfying the needs of Windows users for their products that run on XP/Vista (like the less than ...

@DRWAM I believe you're correct.  If you use Exchange you won't need MobileMe.  Remember, the tag line for hyping MobileMe is "Exchange for the Rest of Us."

@Paul While I've been pretty positive in my comments I have to agree with you at a top level that the entire MobileMe implementation is pretty screwed up... but I believe (actually I hope!) Apple will see past their desire to thump Windows users and make the needed changes to the application.  Since I'm not an Exchange user this is the only ...

@sharp65 Yes, I saw that Apple Support article so I understand this may be how it works at the moment.  Hopefully Apple has plans to correct this misrepresentation and enable a more instantaneous solution.  As it is it works fairly well... certainly better that before when syncing required a USB cable and user intervention!  I'll ...

I had initially had all kinds of problems getting sync to work correctly (as advertised) between iPhone 3G, MobileMe and Outlook 2007 in my Vista Ultimate box.  I believe the major contributor to all the problems were rollout issues with Apple's servers, which seem to be getting more reliable as time passes. Sync works like this for me ...