PC user wanting to sync everything with .mac

I'm a PC user switching to mac. At this time I have a .mac account. I also own an iPhone.
Here it is- I am trying to:
1. Basically, I want to sync ALL of the information I have on Microsoft Outlook (contacts, calendar, etc.) with .mac (if it's possible). Of course I have had no trouble with getting email on the iPhone.
2. Is it possible in this early stage of switching from PC to mac - to just sync my iPhone with .mac from the internet - or will I have to go on using Outlook until I get my mac?
3. When I get a mac, how easy will it be to sync all of my info I have on Outlook with the mac?
And last...
4. Because my iPhone has synced with the PC - will it still be easy to switch that to mac?
I hope I was clear. I know it's a lot.

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
This will seem to be a complicated answer, but bear with me. For starters, .Mac Sync technology synchronizes only selected data types between one or more Macintosh desktop or portable computers, and the .Mac servers. It does not itself interact directly with any other applications or devices. For example, the contacts and events on your iPhone are synchronized using iTunes, interchanging data with the truth database on your Macintosh platform, and distributed elsewhere in your synchronization pool to other supported applications, devices and servers.
For a background on this technology, read this document. It does not reflect the inclusion of the iPhone which synchronizes contacts and events only—not tasks—bidirectionally, or the nature of the iPod touch, which synchronizes contacts bidirectionally but events as if it were an iPod. It is otherwise up to date in the information it offers.
To the extent that your iPhone synchronizes contacts and event in Outlook, you can easily incorporate them onto your Macintosh in to the Address Book and iCal. Tasks: not so much. And mail, not at all.
The answer to mail is IMAP: if your provider doesn't offer it, switch to a provider who does. Even the reasonably low-level mail service offered by AOL supports IMAP. Many major providers such as Comcast and MSN Live do not, though IMAP is an option of US users of Gmail, and soon for other users or Gmail worldwide.
You cannot synchronize your iPhone directly with the .Mac servers 'over the air' using a carrier network, Bluetooth or wireless ethernet. You cannot synchronize your iPhone at all except using the supported USB pathway to iTunes on your Macintosh of Windows OS computer. It's no easier to synchronize with a Macintosh because you have already synchronized to Outlook on your PC, but your contacts and calendars should transfer without issue.
You'll find more discussions about how to to this in the iPhone forums, located here, primarily in the Mail, Calendar and Contacts subforum.

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