diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactDOMLegacyServerStreamConfig.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactDOMLegacyServerStreamConfig.js
index 5fa0c88d13181..4b940731b99b0 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactDOMLegacyServerStreamConfig.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactDOMLegacyServerStreamConfig.js
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   callback();
 }
 
+export function scheduleMicrotask(callback: () => void) {
+  // While this defies the method name the legacy builds have special
+  // overrides that make work scheduling sync. At the moment scheduleMicrotask
+  // isn't used by any legacy APIs so this is somewhat academic but if they
+  // did in the future we'd probably want to have this be in sync with scheduleWork
+  callback();
+}
+
 export function flushBuffered(destination: Destination) {}
 
 export function beginWriting(destination: Destination) {}
diff --git a/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopFlightServer.js b/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopFlightServer.js
index 983ae748e0ea7..cf6f24404c3ed 100644
--- a/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopFlightServer.js
+++ b/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopFlightServer.js
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ type Destination = Array<Uint8Array>;
 const textEncoder = new TextEncoder();
 
 const ReactNoopFlightServer = ReactFlightServer({
+  scheduleMicrotask(callback: () => void) {
+    callback();
+  },
   scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
     callback();
   },
diff --git a/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopServer.js b/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopServer.js
index 7d739d3178836..4e2832e4f2bfe 100644
--- a/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopServer.js
+++ b/packages/react-noop-renderer/src/ReactNoopServer.js
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ function write(destination: Destination, buffer: Uint8Array): void {
 }
 
 const ReactNoopServer = ReactFizzServer({
+  scheduleMicrotask(callback: () => void) {
+    callback();
+  },
   scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
     callback();
   },
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFlightServer.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFlightServer.js
index 306e4b3909093..33199490bd620 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFlightServer.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFlightServer.js
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {enableFlightReadableStream} from 'shared/ReactFeatureFlags';
 
 import {
   scheduleWork,
+  scheduleMicrotask,
   flushBuffered,
   beginWriting,
   writeChunkAndReturn,
@@ -1514,7 +1515,7 @@ function pingTask(request: Request, task: Task): void {
   pingedTasks.push(task);
   if (pingedTasks.length === 1) {
     request.flushScheduled = request.destination !== null;
-    scheduleWork(() => performWork(request));
+    scheduleMicrotask(() => performWork(request));
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBrowser.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBrowser.js
index a1f8a33d43e10..2e68ca7117544 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBrowser.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBrowser.js
@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   channel.port2.postMessage(null);
 }
 
+function handleErrorInNextTick(error: any) {
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    throw error;
+  });
+}
+
+const LocalPromise = Promise;
+
+export const scheduleMicrotask: (callback: () => void) => void =
+  typeof queueMicrotask === 'function'
+    ? queueMicrotask
+    : callback => {
+        LocalPromise.resolve(null).then(callback).catch(handleErrorInNextTick);
+      };
+
 export function flushBuffered(destination: Destination) {
   // WHATWG Streams do not yet have a way to flush the underlying
   // transform streams. https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/960
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBun.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBun.js
index 36c94570ec91c..81f86a50b7b25 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBun.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigBun.js
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   setTimeout(callback, 0);
 }
 
+export const scheduleMicrotask = queueMicrotask;
+
 export function flushBuffered(destination: Destination) {
   // Bun direct streams provide a flush function.
   // If we don't have any more data to send right now.
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigEdge.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigEdge.js
index e77dc28284a18..22f165ded94c1 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigEdge.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigEdge.js
@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@ export type PrecomputedChunk = Uint8Array;
 export opaque type Chunk = Uint8Array;
 export type BinaryChunk = Uint8Array;
 
+function handleErrorInNextTick(error: any) {
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    throw error;
+  });
+}
+
+const LocalPromise = Promise;
+
+export const scheduleMicrotask: (callback: () => void) => void =
+  typeof queueMicrotask === 'function'
+    ? queueMicrotask
+    : callback => {
+        LocalPromise.resolve(null).then(callback).catch(handleErrorInNextTick);
+      };
+
 export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   setTimeout(callback, 0);
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigNode.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigNode.js
index cbd366ab54ba3..773c998610df0 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigNode.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactServerStreamConfigNode.js
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   setImmediate(callback);
 }
 
+export const scheduleMicrotask = queueMicrotask;
+
 export function flushBuffered(destination: Destination) {
   // If we don't have any more data to send right now.
   // Flush whatever is in the buffer to the wire.
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.custom.js b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.custom.js
index 22cd6551c0b28..a9799cb7ba190 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.custom.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.custom.js
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ export opaque type Chunk = mixed; // eslint-disable-line no-undef
 export opaque type BinaryChunk = mixed; // eslint-disable-line no-undef
 
 export const scheduleWork = $$$config.scheduleWork;
+export const scheduleMicrotask = $$$config.scheduleMicrotask;
 export const beginWriting = $$$config.beginWriting;
 export const writeChunk = $$$config.writeChunk;
 export const writeChunkAndReturn = $$$config.writeChunkAndReturn;
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb-experimental.js b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb-experimental.js
index 40d97c71b58cb..e1fa4a0869cdd 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb-experimental.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb-experimental.js
@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ export interface Destination {
   onError(error: mixed): void;
 }
 
+function handleErrorInNextTick(error: any) {
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    throw error;
+  });
+}
+
+export const scheduleMicrotask: (callback: () => void) => void =
+  typeof queueMicrotask === 'function'
+    ? queueMicrotask
+    : callback => {
+        Promise.resolve(null).then(callback).catch(handleErrorInNextTick);
+      };
+
 export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   setTimeout(callback, 0);
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb.js b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb.js
index e15f6808673c3..12ed6ba59852e 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/forks/ReactServerStreamConfig.dom-fb.js
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 
 export * from '../ReactServerStreamConfigFB';
 
+export function scheduleMicrotask(callback: () => void) {
+  // We don't schedule work in this model, and instead expect performWork to always be called repeatedly.
+}
+
 export function scheduleWork(callback: () => void) {
   // We don't schedule work in this model, and instead expect performWork to always be called repeatedly.
 }