Eftpos have taken a hit over here in most businesses.
Reports coming in it's not just Oz.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft-banks-airlines-australia/104119960

It's the second M$ outage in two days. Just before that, M$ Azure took out a lot businesses.

"Frontier Airlines Briefly Grounds All Flights Amid Microsoft Outage"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/us/frontier-flights-grounded-microsoft.html


"Microsoft outage: Frontier and other airlines were at a standstill for hours"
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/18/business/frontier-airlines-microsoft-outage/index.html

Will leaders learn and fire the people who brought in M$ products and services? Will they reassess the total cost of ownership for failed product lines like Windows and unfit for purpose services like Azure? Likely not, if the past is any indicator. They won't even shrug. It's just business as usual for the lot.

From the Guardian:
"Microsoft issued guidance saying that some customers had seen success by rebooting their PCs as many as 15 times."
Good luck with that!!