So far, so good.

Now the issue. As Mac users, we are all familiar with Sync Services which has been around for a long time, but was never going to last long, and after Lion, I was surprised to still see it in Mountain Lion. I was not surprised when Mavericks dropped it, but obviously Microsoft was. I say this because there is now no way to sync iPads or iPhones without spending a load of cash in the process. This means that Outlook is virtually useless. Contacts, Calendar and To Do lists just don't migrate or copy and unless you have access to an MS Exchange server, this is not going to change. 

Don't panic (I thought) we have a BT account and BT has just migrated to Office 365 - just have to change to that email system and off we go!

No. It does not work either. 

So here we are, Office 365 installed, machines ready to go, but completely isolated form the mobile world and unable to sync our data using Outlook 2011 or Outlook 2013. 

I find it astounding to find out that what is supposed to be a flagship product for MS is so woefully inadequate nearly three years after the product was launched. Sync Services was going to die anyway (as anyone with an Apple Developer's Account would have known) so this is also something that should at least have thrown up a few alarm bells at MS central. 

Not wishing to shell out any more money for third party services, how do others go about syncing data or have they just given up?