PCs on Mac OSX Server use what to access Apple Mail?

Sorry for this simplistic question, but I couldn't find an answer in searching the forums.
We are considering installing Snow Leopard Server Mini for our small office. We are roughly half and half Macs and PCs, but very heavy now with iPhones and iPads. We are using Outlook on the Macs and PCs and on some of the iPads and iPhones as well. Outlook is set to access and download from an externally hosted email server.
I would like to eliminate Outlook and get everyone using Apple services on the back end - Apple Mail, iCal, Messages, etc. (This will be especially useful when Mountain Lion Mac and Server rolls out).
The question is, can a PC user access these services to replace Outlook in some native, non-Outlook PC way? Or is Outlook the best solution, since they're familiar with it and provided I can solve the technical issues? I would think that for Mail, I would point Outlook to our internal mail services, instead of the external one we're using now. But what about calendar? What about messaging?
In short how best can a PC be pointed to the OS X-provided services that the Mac users will be using?
Thank you for any help...

You really can't do this with Apple's server groupware. They are designed to work with Apple products almost exclusively. While mail supports standards like IMAP and POP, iCal server is CalDAV and address book is CardDAV. These are not supported natively in Outlook. Look here http://caldav.calconnect.org/implementations/clients.html for client options but you will likely not find much that will do what you are looking for. Or your client changes will be so drastic that your users will hate you.
If you are adamant on replacing Outlook, research Kerio. But realize that you are going from a hosted solution that is presumably redundant to an internal solution hosted on Apple hardware that is as far from redundant as can be. If you have regulatory or compliance issues that require self-hosting, then Kerio is the way to go as it will work on both platforms and emulates Exchange.
And by the way, Exchange support for OS X and iOS is really pretty good. There is nothing wrong with Exchange, except the price.

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