The concept of syncing between phone and PC (in your case MS Outlook) is antiquated. These days, the phone can get your email, calendar events, contacts, etc directly from your server.
For example, I have configured my phone to get my work email, which sits on an exchange server. My contacts, mail, and calendar events are all on that exchange server, and the phone is smart enough to add those events to the appropriate apps on my phone: calendar, mail, contacts, etc. Of course, you also have the power to choose which items should be automatically synced. I don't sync my work contacts to my phone, for example.
My work email goes to an Outlook client on a PC as well as my phone. My calendar is auto-populated with my meetings. No syncing program/method necessary. If I read an email on my phone, I see it marked read a few seconds later on my Outlook client. And vice versa.
Gmail also syncs seamlessly. And if you use Google Calendar, those events can be synced as well. It all happens on the cloud, and it's automatic.
