I have not been able to send or receive any emails since 12/30/2012. Contacted verizon for a total of 3 hrs. , to be told it's a microsoft problem. I'm using verizon site to get my email. Absolutely hate it. Want my windows life mail back. Trying to talk to or live chat microsoft is impossible. If this issue can't be resolved, plan on buying an apple, been having to much problem with microsoft. Any help would be appreciated.
After Hotmail completely crashed on me a week ago. I have now found some of my incoming mail is being received 3 or 4 messages merged. That is arriving in the inbox under one named sender with the total of the enclosed messages shown in brackets. As this has never happened before is it just me or is Hotmail playing funny games again. I wish I could go back to Outlook Express!!! 
I have been adding emails to my block list everyday, especially those in my junk mail folder. I should have at least 4,000 plus in the list by now.
But it seems that the capacity of the block list in Hotmail is only 500 or 550. How can I increase the overall total?
To be clear, I do not want to remove some and then add some more. I want to keep adding more as I get them.
I don't know if this is specific to Mountain Lion or not but i've recently noticed my Outlook and sync slowing down..

Thought i would do some checking.. i have 13 contact categories and in total 8,516 contacts..
Now i know i don't actually have this many contacts in Outlook.. should be around 2,300 to 2,400 in total..

So i deselected all the tick boxes and went through each one.
on the No Category box it says i have 4,764 contacts
They are all blank..

I deleted them and then a message came up saying i had some sync conflicts..
Then all of a sudden they started coming back.

What is the sync process with itunes, outlook and an iphone ???
All i want is for my Outlook contacts to be on my iphone

But from what i gather, the contacts go from outlook, to address book, to itunes, to iphone ???
How does this all work and what do i need to change to have contact details go one way only - outlook -> iphone and that's it ???

This is really annoying as i changed over to Mac for work and it appeared everything is working fine..
Now it's causing my problems..