It does not offer you the storage solution that Picasa does, but it works great if you are looking to manage all the pictures on your desktop. It has one of the most straightforward and easy to use layouts you will find on any photo editing app. For now then, it is time to say so long to Picasa and, to paraphrase Douglas Adams ‘thanks for all the pics.Windows Photo Gallery is an application that will make you feel right at home. Picasa will officially shut shop on March 16 though Google will not roll out any Picasa to Google Photos transitions will not take place until May. Picasa being shut down is an acknowledgement of the future and that while services like Picasa (it was never really an application as the word means now) had their place they no longer belong in the internet of today. The application will still run but there will no longer be any updates or bug fixes so if you do choose to use the old Picasa you have been warned. It is not exactly a sad day that Google is saying goodbye to Picasa. To their credit, Google has thought of this and has promised Picasa users “a new place to access your Picasa Web Albums data.” It is unclear what this “new place” will be but it is likely to be a simple ‘view and download’ application. While you can simply log into Google Photos and your existing Picasa content will be ported over if you do not wish to use Google what will become of your photos and videos? The problem is, with photo storage especially, that because it is so old the sheer amount of content per each active user is staggering. Some people, understandably, do not want this and like to spread their application usage among a number of different providers, whatever suits their needs. It is true that the beast that Google has become is all encompassing and essentially you cannot pick and choose which part of the Google family you are part of.
But Picasa was Picasa and Google is Google, no? Well, yes. In short, there is simply no need to Picasa, a legacy application of an internet which no longer exists.
Photos are a part of that and Google has offered Google Photos for a while now as part of its communication offering. Google Apps are, for many internet users, an integral part of the way they handle internet communication. Google’s Picasa photo storage and sharing application is a symbol of that but Google has finally announced that it is to be no more. Companies, developers and even internet users knew that certain facilities were needed but they were not refined. This long-winded introduction is to set the scene that the internet used to be a very different place than it is today. Of course, in the past there were no apps, mobile internet did not exist and there was no such thing as Instagram! (Strange to hear but it really was the case). Obviously, different people use the internet in different ways but the vast majority of us have the use and need for certain key internet-based facilities and photos are a big part of that. It didn’t used to be under one roof however and often you had to go to different places for your document editor, e-mail provider, chat or messenger function and your photo storage. Much like a supermarket, everything is under one roof. We login to today’s internet and we can have access to a range of organisational platforms for both business and personal use right from your e-mail provider.
It is sometimes easy to forget how scattered the internet was in the past.
Feb 13 - 3min readRemember Picasa? Google announces it is to suspend support for the photo storage service By Borne
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