Skype crashes for me to - sadly (or maybe it's just as well) the only person I know using Skype is the Chinese Test lady, for some reason the English one doesn't want to call me. Maybe Skype is still beta, just like the N800 OS2008 operating system, but if I owned a N810 I wouldn't be very impressed - I'd wonder why Skype was even let out the door.

MicroB on the other hand is very good and hasn't crashed on me once, and I use it all the time. It has no problems accessing maemo.org though I tend to steer clear of Maemo Planet simply because with the very long articles that appear there the overall page becomes too complex and causes the browser to struggle somewhat.