Q: Sync windows live contacts and iphone 5s

Please help.  I am unable to synch my window live contacts (2012 version) with my new iPhone 5s 16G with iOS 8.1.2.  Only two of the 70 or so contacts come across.

Thinking something might be off on the MS side, I  exported all the contacts to CSV, removed all duplicates and issues, deleted the original contacts in the windows live contact section, and then reimported the updated CSV file.

However, after attempting this, no luck.  Again, only two contacts came across - one of which is no longer in MS Live Contacts.

I have not been able to find any thing on this point in the apple help.  The MS help was for older versions. And the only online forum I saw with this topic was forum techguy  and he said it could not be done.

Please give advise on how to proceed.