Windows Live Wave 3 now in beta!

The Windows Live suite of applications has now entered beta for "Wave 3".

The UI on all apps has changed to look more like the Wave 3 design, as well as slowly working in the Office Ribbon, but most noticeably Windows Live Messenger (now version "2009") has undergone drastic changes. The jury is still out on whether I like it or not, I welcome change but there just seems to be more wasted space than before.

New to the Windows Live suite is Windows Live Movie Maker, which is set to replace Windows Movie Maker (much the same way Live Mail replaced Windows Mail). It's great to see more frequent development (or at least more frequent updates) been released for Movie Maker, but sadly this first beta of Live Movie Maker lacks some very basic features such as being able to trim/edit the timeline of a clip.

Live Photo Gallery and Live Movie Maker now feature an SDK for publishing to a third party sharing service which is great! This means you will no longer need to hack the Internet Printing in Live Gallery to upload photos to a custom gallery.

edit: LiveSide have a much more indepth look at Wave 3, if you can't be bothered installing for yourself :)