Picasa taught me to not trust Google and yet I kinda fell for the "unlimited backup of your photos" in "photos". Which were unlimited until it weren't. And now my storage is full and Google is repeatedly threatening to drop emails because they share the same storage.
Re:Killed by Microsoft
by hackmiester on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:08AM
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Maybe a Windows update fixed this? My parents are still using Picasa.
Okay, maybe. This was years ago when my dad complained about it not working. I installed FastStone Image Viewer as a replacement (what I use), but he preferred Picasa.
Re:Killed by Microsoft
by hackmiester on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:55PM
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I will check that out, thanks for mentioning it. I've been low-key sweating about the potential loss of Picasa since it's been unmaintained, but aside from maybe the iPhone photo editor, I have never seen something as easy to use. And honestly, in my opinion, Picasa still has a slight edge over the modern iPhone editor...
Try telling that to Picasa users.
When Google announced it was "moving on from Picasa", they stated:
"We apologize for any inconvenience this transition causes, but.... Google Photos is a new and smarter product that offers a better platform for us..."
A better platform for Google. Not users.
Many Picasa users, like my father, were left frustrated and confused by the change. He was not a "cloud user" of anything, and he took lots of hi-res photos and wanted to manage them locally. Picasa failed to install on Windows 10, and some people were even rolling back to Windows 7/8 just so they could keep using the Picasa application.
I hope you don't consider migration from locally controlled photo management to the cloud as "generally the same features", because it isn't.