iPhone and Microsoft Outlook help please

There are not a lot of options to change the way that contacts come up (First,Last or Last,First). But, you can go to the contacts app (either the standalone one or the one in the phone app) and use the search at the top and type in the company name. That will sort the list and do what you want.

I think you are pretty much out of luck here without Exchange, Yahoo, or some form of ActiveSync (not sure if there are others that support this).

I've had both and this is a reasonable conclusion. The iPhone may not be the best business tool on the market. It does have the benefit of a large number of other features in a single package. For me, the email "issues" are not that big of a deal. I travel a lot and like having everything (phone, email, web, iPod, movies, etc.) in one place with one cable. If it is a very slick email system you are looking for the Blackberry may be the way to go.

Hope that helps.