Taking aim at Oracle, Tuner rhetorically asked: "How many happy Oracle customers are you talking to?"

"There is a tremendous opportunity for us to really go after the Oracle customer right now," he said. He posited that SQL Server was a lower-cost and more secure alternative to the Oracle database.

With VMware, he referred to something he called the "VMware tax," noting that Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software offers the ability to run more virtual machines, after the first six, at no additional cost. "We caught VMware flat-footed because of the economics of the cloud," he said. "The more VMs you add, the more you save."

This is not the first year that Turner has bashed competitors. Last year at WPC, Turner Apple for its problems with the then recently released iPhone 4, calling it Apple's Vista, referring to Microsoft's own less-than-enthusiastically received operating system.

Apple was not spared Turner 's mockery this year either. Comparing Apple's approach to its operating systems with Microsoft's, Turned mused that "your guess is as good as mine as to when [Apple will merge] the iOS and MacOS." Windows 8, in contrast, will be a single OS that will bridge a wide range of different devices, he noted.