Website Login Needed to Download Photos? Stop! Make it seamless!

OK, I understand why Microsoft wanted to end point-to-point transfers, and push our photo exchanges into the cloud. I think it was kinda arrogant to just to do it, without giving users the option, but so be it. So now, when we upload photos, they first must upload to the cloud, and THEN the recipient can download them. Slower... but there is some advantages. Whatever. It is what it is. The problem is that it is not seamless. Now, when a supplier sends me a photo, it shows up as a link in Skype. I need to click on the link, which takes me to the Skype website. I need to login. It's a multi-step process. First, I need to enter my MSN ID. Then, I need to wait for it to ask for the password (no way to enter them both at the same time.) Then it will finally unlock/release my photo. And to add insult to injury, I need to do this EVERY TIME for EACH INDIVIDUAL PHOTO. I thought I had read that this was going to be a temporary thing... yet it has been going on for MONTHS!!! Are they EVER going to make this seamless on the iPad, like it is on a PC desktop? Now, I just apologize to my suppliers and tell them that Skype for iPad is broken, and they just need to email the photos to me. Alternately, I'm finding that QQ is not so bad (once you get past the fact that everything is in Chinese!). What does that say about the future of Skype when loyal, frequent users are starting to turn to Chinese apps for an improved user experience! /endrant

I'm in the same boat, it's been about 5 or so weeks (whenever the new iphone came out) and it's still downloading. Any help would be appreciated. I just updated to iOS 8.1 like 5 mins ago and nothing

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