"We see a great trend [with] the current growth and are in a position to take a leadership role to help customers move into the cloud," Elop said. He thinks that his company has a leading role and dismisses any threats from Google.

"They have interesting soundbites, but we are the ones who attract all the customers," he argued, pointing to the 40 million business users that currently purchase cloud services from Microsoft, such as Live Meeting, Exchange Online or Sharepoint Online. Microsoft dwarfs Google when it comes to cloud customer counts, he said. "In terms of actual customer wins, they are clearly taking a Microsoft decision."

Microsoft is winning because the company's offerings have a lower total cost of ownership than competing offerings, and offer better desktop integration, he said.