Skype client

Question

Skype

1. Are there any other means to communicate in Skype chats without Skype itself?
2. The problem is that he began to eat wildly a lot of resources (CPU and RAM). Changed versions to older ones, nothing helps.
Premium connected. Maybe someone knows how to cure it?

Answer 1

https://www.trillian.im/

Answer 2

https://plus.im/ as an option

Answer 3

in outlook .

Answer 4

Miranda NG