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Elon Musk Mocks Microsoft With A 'Macrohard' Post

Minutes after Microsoft faced huge technical disruption, the tech giant and owner of micro-blogging site X, Elon Musk mocked the rival company with two posts. Sharing an old tweet from 2021, Musk called Microsoft a "Macrohard". The tweet read, "Macrohard >> Microsoft."

In the second post, which he retweeted, Musk shared a picture of a man sitting on the edge of a rock, chilling and smoking, and enjoying the chaos going on.

Elon Musk

The caption of the post reads: "Everything else is down, this app still works 🚬"

According to the reports, a technical issue in Microsoft's cloud services happened on Friday morning, which led to the disruption of numerous businesses using the cloud services including airlines, banks, telecom companies, media broadcasters, and others.

As per the users, Microsoft's Azure cloud and Microsoft 365 services were down and users experienced significant issues. A blue notorious "screen of death" along with an error message was seen by most of the users working on Windows workstations.

Reacting immediately to the outage, Microsoft announced that technicians and software experts are trying to fix the issues and the company has "rerouted the impacted traffic to an alternate system to alleviate impact."

In its latest statement, Microsoft reported a "positive trend in service availability", however, its some services are still down.

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