This whole outlook/microsoft-account thing is confusing me

[sueha]

Hey guys. I am using a Microsoft account for my notebook, my desktop and my Lumia 920 (***@hotmail com). I am registered at outlook.com, too, which I use to access my 3rd party E-Mail accounts (e.g. my university mail account) and forward my mails to my phone.

So, my concern is: Whenever I look into my contacts in my phone, there is a totally chaotic mix of outlook- and microsoft contacts. I think all my contacts are saved on my Microsoft account, but many of those contacts are saved on my outlook.com account aswell. I want to get rid of that chaos and save all my contacts with all their phone numbers and email adresses on ONE account, preferably the microsoft account. I want to access these contacts from my phone, my two PC's, the outlook.com website, my office 365 desktop software and the windows 8 people app. Is this possible at all? How do you handle those accounts on your phones? I find it absolutely redundant to save two similar contacts (one outlook, one ms account) and link them with absolutely no benefit.

Thanks for all your input

 

[rockstarzzz]

Filter contacts. In settings, opt to Filter. Deselect the account you don't want. If your Microsoft account has all of them, choose to deselect Outlook.