I'm trying to use windows live mail on my surface.  from the windows live mail program I send and receive emails fine from multiple accounts.  I have the calendar and contacts on my windows live account (old Hotmail account).  I set it to log into my windows live account when I start the program.  If I don't log in I can get email but not sync calendar and I at that point have no contacts.  When I log in I get the contacts however they are not the most current ones.  My IPhone my android phone three other windows computers and my Ipad all work fine using the same account information and the calendar also works.  Only the windows 8 computer is giving me trouble.