Microsoft announced today that it purchased Skype for $ 8.5 billion. After a week of speculation about a possible acquisition by either Facebook or Google, the Microsoft news has shocked the tech world and stolen Google’s thunder on the opening day of Google’s I/O conference.

Ironically, I had been working on writing something up regarding the pros and cons of Facebook-Skype and Google-Skype to analyze which might be a better fit for Skype, and which combination would yield a better end result for businesses and consumers. It seems, I can throw that out…but not entirely, because Facebook and Google are both still affected by the Skype purchase.