What should I sync my contact and calendar with?

Hello,
I have put in an enormous amount of contacts/date entries (collected from various places) into my iPhone but I am not currently attached or fully using any PC or online apps (not very smart of me, I know). So I am getting worried about a possibility of losing them, since my entries are not backed up/synced.
I need to figure out what would be the best application to sync my phone with. I am on PC platform and I want to make sure that my contacts/date entries will import to my PC without getting overwritten.
Thank you very much!
Lyudmila

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+*Contacts must be stored in one of the following compatible contact managers:*+
+*Outlook Express (Windows XP only)*+
+Windows Contacts (Windows Vista only)+
+Outlook 2003+
+Outlook 2007+
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+*Calendars must be stored in one of the following compatible calendar applications:*+
+Outlook 2003+
+Outlook 2007+
Since you are running XP, you can use Outlook Express for contacts which is a free MS application I believe - included with Windows but calendar events requires Outlook 2003 or 2007 which isn't free but if you already have either one installed, I would use Outlook for both so all data is available with a single application.
Make sure you have at least one contact available in Outlook Express's address book or in Outlook's address book and one calendar event available in Outlook before syncing.
This is risky to say the least since there is always the chance all contact entries and calendar events currently on the iPhone will be removed during the sync process but you don't have any choice.

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