Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:37PM
Android still has a 16-character limit, and it is used for the encryption password as well.