After the launch of Google Photos service, internet search giant Google
is shutting down its photo editing software Picasa, the company
announced on Saturday February 13,2016
"Since the launch of Google Photos, we have had a lot of questions
around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and
consideration, we have decided to retire Picasa over the coming months
in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos,"
Anil Sabharwal, head of Google Photos, wrote in a blog post.
"We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one
service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and
desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products,"
he added.
Picasa is a software that enables users to easily manage photos on
personal computers, transform them with effects and upload and share
them online.
Google has said that the photos and videos, which are in the user's
Picasa Web Album could be accessed, modified and shared through Google
Photos.
"For those of you who don't want to use Google Photos or who still want
to be able to view specific content, such as tags, captions or comments,
we will be creating a new place for you to access your Picasa Web
Albums data," Sabharwal noted.
Google will start rolling out changes from May 1, 2016.
However,
the Picasa desktop application will no longer be in service from March
15, 2016.
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