Question about Outlook Express

Hi

I recently exported all of my Google contacts (500+) as a .csv file and inputed this data into the Microsoft account.

The first problem I ran into was, my contacts birthday got transposed if they were born before 13th of the month. I.e 12th April became 4th December. I manually fixed this issue by going through and checking each contacts birthday against the original contact. That issue is now rectified for me.

Upon completion of fixing the birthday issue, I tried to sync my contacts to my devices. Windows 8 went without a hitch, but then it was time to sync contacts onto Android & iOS and this is when I ran into a problem I couldn't fix. The problem is when my Microsoft Account syncs via exchange I end up with 1200+ contacts on my devices when it should only be the 500 contacts which is how many outlook.com contacts I have. After further investigation I discovered that the extra 700 contacts have been caused by the fact that my messenger contacts are also syncing to my devices, not just my outlook.com contacts. The other thing is that the outlook.com contacts & messenger contacts are not being linked and when I manually link them in a couple of days time they become unlinked.

When I try to sync my contacts to Android via the outlook.com app it syncs some of my contacts however they are unable to be edited or added to.

In summary, all I'm after is to be able to sync all of my outlook.com contacts to iOS/android, be able to add/edit my contacts and most importantly not have my messenger contacts sync to my device's.