The nastiest part of the whole Windows Live Wave 4 Beta experience so far has been concentrated on the installer - though not all Microsoft's fault, I did have some dodgy settings in my Internet Options.

Today, I flicked open the new Windows Live Photo Gallery, and this is a really nice application.

THE GOOD

Automatically detected iPhone and offer to import pictures
Import offers to just grab everything, or group (and mass-tag) pictures based on the time they were taken. Aka "afternoon trip", "evening dinner @ rocks"
Default view sorted pictures by Month
Automatically detected the picture orientation and rotated them around. Unlike… a certain other company's software. /blog/2010/4/15/apple-iphone-drivers-are-pos.html

iPhone crap drivers.

Windows Live Photo Gallery import (automatically fixed orientation)
Lovely Ribbons interface