Seattle Times Biz-Tech reporter Sharon Chan recently caught Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s session and found him “rolling with a Microsoft (News - Alert) rant.”

As usual, Benioff had opinions and wasn’t shy about expressing them. “In the world of mobile, which is only behind social” in importance, Benioff said, Microsoft “are nowhere.”

The occasion was a presentation with Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar about Chatter, Chan wrote, “Salesforce.com’s (News - Alert) new enterprise collaboration network that will compete with Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Chatter, now in beta testing, is like a Facebook (News - Alert) network for business people.”

Benioff said of Microsoft “they get so committed to their gestalt, which is so bizarre, because they’re so all about Windows to the point that they’re blinded by it,” Benioff said. “I really am surprised and somewhat disgusted by their desire to maintain their grip on the industry with Windows.”

He then called SAP (News - Alert) the “anti-cloud,” Chan reported: “They’re like, ‘Oh, the cloud, it does not exist,’ he said, mimicking a Euro accent.”

(“Euro” accent? Ever heard a “Euro” accent?)

He skewered Oracle (News - Alert) with the left-handed compliment, Chan reported, quoting Benioff  as saying Oracle’s “killer app is acquisitions. You have to give Larry credit for the ability to ingest companies and spit out their numbers. We’re fundamentally impressed by that ability.”

In a separate interview in late January with Information Week Benioff said “Microsoft is a great company in the perspective of operating systems for PCs, and for servers, and for Office, and for Back Office -- that’s what it used to be called; I don’t know what it’s called now. And Microsoft succeeded greatly because they offered a lower-cost alternative to Data General or Digital Equipment -- but those companies aren’t around anymore. That model is finished -- they’re gone.”

He added that “today customers don’t need to deal with all that stuff -- they can just move to the Internet, and that’s where the world is headed. Microsoft’s mistake has been holding on too long to an old paradigm and as it keeps trying to control things and offer a new upgrade like Windows 7 that has no enhancements. And that’s not innovation and it’s not good for customers.”