[mizzourob]

Perhaps the only saving grace would be if someone would develop a (desktop) Outlook Exchange ActiveSync addin to access the Exchange server (sort of like DAVMail); then again if I wait long enough hopefully someone in the Windows Phone community will be able to implement a USB sync solution now that with the Mango update, user data is no longer completely sandboxed like it was before.

The ideal solution, of course, would be for native Microsoft support with the Zune desktop client being able to sync with Outlook (both x86 and x64), and provide the user the option for which calender and contact source on the phone to sync with a users choice of calenders and contact lists withing Outlook.