Outlook global outage: Netizens turn to social media to air relief, sense of humor at tech disruption

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Microsoft Outlook remains unavailable the world over, and netizens are taking their frustration, discomfort, and well, relief on social media for all to see.

Microsoft Outlook remains unavailable the world over, and netizens are taking their frustration, discomfort, and well, relief on social media for all to see.

Addressing Microsoft employees who were working to bring Outlook back, one Twitter user pointed to their health and made a joke. "Please don’t push yourselves too hard. Your health matters more than any deadline," the X user with the handle @amelia_tweetz began.

"Take a long weekend, relax, and come back Monday feeling refreshed. You’ve worked hard enough this week, and I promise those 400 unread emails aren’t going anywhere," she jokingly added.

Another X user by the handle @seniorswifties, echoed her and said "whoever is troubleshooting and working on the Microsoft outage for outlook and teams...take your time."

Meanwhile, an X user with the handle @MikeBeauvais compared the outage happening on Friday to the approaching Christmas holidays.

"It’s almost Friday, so there’s really no point in Outlook coming back now. And it’s November, so it’s almost Christmas. No point really coming back until January if you think about it. Let’s circle back then," he said in a post that's been retweeted 10K times.

Some old school brands have taken advantage of the modern-day situation to try and show their advantage during these modern-day problems.

There's Encyclopaedia Britannica who posted a photo of an encyclopedia set and said "these bad boys never go down."

On Instagram, the film "Sound of Music" posted a video of Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp on the hills of Vienna with a text that read "email = dead, the hills = alive."

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