Now that the roll out of Windows Live Wave 4 has started I thought I would share with some of my thoughts and opinions about the suite of services both the good and bad.

There are many aspects about Windows Live Wave that I love; in fact many, many more things I love than I can be bothered to write down but I thought I share with you of the shining aspects of the suite and some of the best features.

Messenger Social, this stream of updates from all my contacts on all their services is great, allowing me not to have to go to each site to find out the latest pieces of information. Yes this was introduced in the Wave 3 update but now its possible to comment on the articles which shows up on the original service is great, also being able to share my Windows Live updates on various services is very useful.

Photos Slideshow, I really liked the Silverlight slideshow in the Wave 3 update, however Microsoft have really upped the ante with Wave 4 with nice transitions, larger images, more information about the image and other Windows Live services within the slideshow viewer. It is also possible to add comments to photos now and even chat to Messenger contacts.

Messenger, it has finally happened, we can now access Messenger properly in any browser when we want too. Over the past few days I have used the service and found it to be very reliable and the tabbed window is a great space saving aspect.

Whilst not disliking any aspect of the Wave 4 update there have been a few things I would like to see tweaked in the suite. The first thing is being able to sign out of the online Messenger in exactly the same place one signs into it. Currently users sign into the feature by hovering over Messenger in the header but have to sign out by hovering over their name on the right side of the header. This has caught me out a few times already and I have known how this works, its not a major problem but certainly a place of irritation for me and likely others.

I’d also like to have a page dedicated to the Messenger Social which replicates the look of the social pane in the new version of Messenger. Only being able to see the social stream on the home page of the Windows Live suite is a bit restricting. It would also be nice to set a default filter on the social stream so rather than having it default to Highlights it could be set to Recent instead.

I know there’s just no pleasing some people, seeing as I have only just got access to the Wave 4 update, but I’d just thought I’d share my opinions on how Windows Live could be even better and maybe there are still a few other things to come, we have yet to get the new version of Hotmail.

Do you have any niggles with the Wave 4 update? Leave a comment below or send me a tweet and if there are enough I might write a post about them.