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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Baeocystin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:09PM (#19332466)
Picasa's flow is still the best quick-edit system I've used. I am comfortable with Lightroom & Photoshop, and they're great tools. But Picasa did a stellar job of balancing simple/lightweight/fast/useful in a manner I haven't seen replicated anywhere else.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by bynkman on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:33AM (#19337311)
I'm glad somebody said this. I totally agree. I still use the Picasa desktop software. It's brilliant for picking out best pics and tweaking them. The web interface just doesn't compare.

When they announced that the desktop software was going away, I immediately downloaded the final version and archived it away. More than likely I will use it until Windows no longer supports it... unless someone "makes a better Picasa".

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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by vanderZwan on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:12PM (#19332499)
It probably has only gotten more responsive by virtue of being made to run fast on hardware from the early 2000s
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Baeocystin on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:16PM (#19332550)
You're not wrong. I'll be genuinely sad when Windows eventually drops whatever API support allows it to keep running without emulation.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Kye on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:10PM (#19333057)
Microsoft is famously unwilling to let software stop working. Picasa will probably work forever.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by erik_seaberg on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:22PM (#19333149)
Dropping Win16 was a bad sign. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost... talks about the back compat faction losing power at Microsoft.
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Re:Less than a month to go before Google breaks links to Goo... by Kye on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:32PM (#19333250)
Interesting read. A lot has changed in the almost 15 years since he published it. Has he done any followups?
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