The Microsoft marketing department must be the best place on earth to work. Apparently there is nothing you can do, no matter how tone deaf or boneheaded that will get you fired.
It's more than just the accent, there's also a disgusting slurred phlemmy quality to his voice. I wouldn't so much say it's a microsoft fail, it's more apple REALLY knowing their customer base.
Yeah, this seems to be almost entirely because Microsoft's voice assistant doesn't understand the Australian accent. On a related note, Siri doesn't understand Scottish accents.