Skype feels like it runs just as well on my brand new laptop as it used to do on my 9 year old machine.<p>As in not well at all and whenever any progress has been made with computing speed the Skype team have refactored their app to perform just as poorly on the new hardware.<p>Also why is the &quot;Skype Home&quot; part of the app just a facebook advert? I don&#x27;t have an FB account so Skype tells me to get one every time I open it. Seemingly FB is more important than my contacts.