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Google on Friday announced that it will suspend Picasa Photo Management tool so that it can concentrate on Google Photo Service. "After much thought and consideration, we've decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos," Anil Sabharwal, the head of the Google Photos team, said 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."

If you use Picasa, the users can transition to Google Photos easily, according to the company. Just sign-into your Google Photos account and the users will be able to access their Picasa uploads from here too. However, Google Photos does not have a desktop app, but it is easy to use and upload photos using the web interface. Google will not discontinue Picasa immediately. It will gradually phase out the service, starting from the desktop version and then the Web Albums feature in the next few months, as reported by PC World

The desktop version of Picasa will be suspended on 15^th March, 2016. While you can still use the app on your desktop, Google will not support it any longer and you will not receive any new updates to make the app better. "We apologize for any inconvenience this transition causes, but we want to assure you that we are doing this with the aim of providing the best photos experience possible," Google says. "Google Photos is a new and smarter product, that offers a better platform for us to build amazing experiences and features for you in the future," reported PetaPixel.com