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Elon Musk Trolls Microsoft With 'Macrohard' Jab Amid Global Outage

Elon Musk trolled Microsoft amid a major global outage that caused service disruptions for millions of users. 🦄

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk's internet humour has attracted attention once more, this time focusing on Microsoft amid a major global outage that caused service disruptions for millions of users. Amusingly, Musk compared the internet✅ giant to a fictitious business called "Macrohard,"ꦯ teasing that Microsoft performed worse.

The businessman, known fo💟r his candid remarks and active online presence, used the opportunit💫y to poke fun at the industry leader in software. 

In another post, Musk quote-tweeted a meme with a ‘face with tears of joy’ emoji. The meme, w♏hich originated on Indian social media in 2017, features a serene image of a man smoking a beedi while chaos erupts around him. 

The meme was revived to mock the Microsoft-Crowdstrike issue, with the caption "Everything else is down, this app still works" written by "DogeDesigner" on the X platform (formerly Twitter). The meme humorously depicted laptops experiencing blue screen crash⛎es due to the Microsoft outage, while the X app remained functional.

Microsoft Outage

A widespread Microsoft outage disrupted flights, banks, media♔ outlets and companies around the world on Friday. Escalating disruptions continued hours after the t♋echnology company said it was gradually fixing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services.

The website DownDectector, which tracks user-reported internet outages, recorded grꦬowing outages in services at Visa, ADT security and Amazon, and airlines includ♈ing American Airlines and Delta.

Microsoft 365 posted on X that the company was “working on rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact in a more expedient fashion” and that they were “observing a positive🌠 trend in service availability.𝓀”

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