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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @10:37PM (#616938)

    Android still has a 16-character limit, and it is used for the encryption password as well.

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