Stewart wrote:

Thanks Brian for your response. I'll look into making Hotmail my
default contacts (you mentioned calender below, but I'm more
interested in contacts than calendar).

Making your Hotmail account the default delivery location will make ALL your
Hotmail folders the default folders.

However, if I make hotmail
contacts my primary, i'm concerned that i'll lose some of the fields
that are in my Outlook contacts (like a photo, spouse name, etc.)
since Hotmail contacts don't appear to support those fields. Any
thoughts?

Sorry, I don't know the answer to this. However, I suspect that since
Outlook Live behaves similarly to Exchange (even to having an OST), that
your Outlook data will look just the same.
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Brian Tillman