"I am grateful for those competitors. It is fun going after them in a big way," he said.

Turner even took the opportunity to criticize some of Microsoft's old technologies, such as Windows XP and Office 2003.

As the COO, Turner Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing, and services. And at the WPC conference, his role is to rally Microsoft partners to march into battle against

competing companies. This year, however, Turner seemed even more eager than usual to call out competitors by name and list their putative deficiencies.

Google was one of the first companies Turner savaged, particularly in regards to its online office suite, Google Docs. "Two years ago, all of the headlines said Microsoft was in big trouble," he said. "Guess what? It hasn't happened."