Really hoping they&#x27;ll open source the Picasa application or something, it was really the best in the business - I still recommend it to people regularly. Managing digital photos any other way I&#x27;ve seen is just too complicated for average users.<p>Other than that I can only recommend they go to Lightroom or one of several open source applications which are at varying stages of completion and usability (I haven&#x27;t played with any recently so if anyone knows a particularly polished one that runs on Windows let me know). All of the alternatives are more difficult to use than Picasa. This really sucks.