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Microsoft Global Outage Costs Australia $2.1B, Grounds 1,400 India Flights, Shuts 47 US Courts

The EFTPOS terminal at a Sydney cafe froze at 8:47 AM AEST. The owner watched a $40 breakfast sale vanish. By noon, the Australian Signals Directorate confirmed the cause: a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor kernel driver update had triggered Windows kernel panic across 8.5 million devices worldwide. The outage lasted 90 minutes. The economic reverberations will ...