I am considering upgrading to Mavericks but I hear that sync services between Outlook 2011 and iCal/iPhone are no longer active, since everyhting is managed via iCloud. is this true? 

Is there any workaround or simply one cannot longer use Outlook 2011 and have her contact/appts synced with her phone if upgrades to Mavericks?

can anyone help?

thanks a lot

alessandra