I've been looking at webmail for the first time. IMAP is a bit slower but that's another story. The majority of phones are Androids or iOS. Maybe Window phones still have some linkages with MS but aren't most phones including Window Phones geared towards a Google account? Given the other products such as Youtube, GPS etc. At least from a consumer point of view.
The phone manufacturer might provide some software that can sync your Outlook contacts and calender, mine doesn't do emails. One could rely on 3rd party apps to do the job. Didn't Google pulled Active Sync or something. Isn't that becoming a bit blurred. The direct way is maybe link a Smartphone with Gmail and all Google stuff. One then may not use MS Outlook Calender. Doesn't that feel weird when one uses MS for the wordprocessor etc ... or have some of you migrated away from MS for that too?