Contact sync htc8x

Hi I have just brought a HTC 8X & iam having sync issues. Now what i did was I have linked my google mail ac to windows live ac & all the contact are visible on the web page of the windows live mail on my pc but the contact are not being synced to my mobile moreover Iam even not able to sync my contact directly to my mobile as the active sync services by google have been taken out it have been a big time issue to me as I have been running the mobile without contacts from 5 days now & I have tried everything I count have found on the net so please give me a possible solution to this ASAP.