The backdoor aside, but using Skype seems to be a real pain recently. It used to be something that offered unmatched quality and service, but with time passing it is lagging behind. Skype on Mac OS X now starts like in 10 seconds and even the shutdown takes 10-15 seconds (on SSD). Video calls are fine, but the fans are quickly 100%. It's funny but the (long unmaintened) Linux skype seems to be better at video calls.

This news only proves that the Skype codebase must be an unmanageable mess. I can undetsrand that. But also it seems that MS is moving to the web version of skype, in the meantime not taking care too much about the native clients.