Skype has become horrible long ago when original team sold it. I remember Skype when its binary was several megabytes and there was no Facebook inside.
And now it became slow (at least on Windows XP) and buggy - for example I have no notifications sound anymore and it is unable to accept incoming calls. Judging by interface lagginess they have put at least several modern Javascript frameworks inside. And maybe something to work with immutable values judging by memory consumption.
Every proprietary messenger ends up like Skype sooner or later.
Yes, because it uses less resources than newer OSes. Windows 7 for me has no advantages over Windows XP but works slower. The only good thing in Windows 7 is search field integrated into main menu.
I guess I will have to upgrade either to Windows 7 or to Debian (if it won't work too slow) because many applications including browsers don't work on XP anymore.
Err Windows 7 has the advantage of not being incredibly insecure, which I would definitely consider a major advantage, probably the most important one for an OS...
Windows 10 is pretty resource efficient. There's even a stripped back 'long term support one' which is incredibly lightweight. Anyway, RAM is incredibly cheap now, I don't think you should be risking getting totally pwned for the sake of an investment in a few GB of ram.
And now it became slow (at least on Windows XP) and buggy - for example I have no notifications sound anymore and it is unable to accept incoming calls. Judging by interface lagginess they have put at least several modern Javascript frameworks inside. And maybe something to work with immutable values judging by memory consumption.
Every proprietary messenger ends up like Skype sooner or later.