Salesforce CEO jabs at Microsoft cloud moves

* Says Microsoft not making headway in cloud computing

* Skeptical of Azure platform

* Sees customers adapting to recession

By Bill Rigby

SEATTLE, June 18 (Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc's (CRM.N) outspoken chief executive took a few jabs at Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) lumbering efforts to build up its "cloud computing" services on Thursday, on a visit to to the world's largest software company's home town.

Marc Benioff, a former Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) employee who founded Salesforce.com 10 years ago, rarely misses a chance to bash Microsoft as he spreads his gospel of cutting out software installed on users' computers and getting companies to use applications over the web.

"We are all about no software and they are all about software," Benioff said at a lunch in Seattle, when asked about Microsoft. "We are all about creating a whole new movement of cloud computing to move companies away from Microsoft's proprietary technology and monopolistic business practices."

Salesforce, with a "Ghostbusters"-style logo with the word "software" in a red, barred circle, is not an immediate threat to Microsoft. The San Francisco-based company had just over $1 billion in revenue last fiscal year, compared to Microsoft's $60 billion.