I have some files I want to share with people who don't all have Live accounts. We could do with having a shared calendar and a shared email account.

Some of us can create folders in our Skydrives. 

I can send them links to my files, either by pasting a link into an email or by posting the link on a closed forum. When people follow the link they then show up in a list. As the owner of those files/folders I can figure out if people are accessing the files who shouldn't really be there. It really is so simple, elegant and IT WORKS.

But: logic dictates you'd want the group invite process to be just as simple, elegant and IT WORKS... except it is a complete right royal pain in the rear. In fact, I have an old group which was setup before the outlook.com integration where all the invites worked, and have given up trying to set up a group in fall 2013 (on THREE different Skydrive logins) because right now, it appears no matter how you go about it, the outlook.com integration is broke. So when you create a group you don't get a shared calendar created for you, invites that are allegedly sent never arrive and there's no way of accessing the group outlook.com account to see if something ever got sent at all.

This is so broke it even extends to inviting people to participate inside a folder in a group.

In a folder in a personal Skydrive you can create a link, shorten it and distribute it yourself.
In a folder in a Skydrive group you're forced to use the outlook.com email invite process WHICH DOES NOT WORK if your Live account is associate to a non-MS email account.

Just a thought: can we have the Send A Link option on Skydrive groups? PLEASE? Pretty please, with sugar on top?