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This. I just went to try outlook and ran into this with my existing hotmail account, which uses a passphrase and naturally is longer than 16 chars.

Horribly disappointed.

Er, wait a second, how is it even possible that they validate my login just typing the first 16 chars of my old (longer) password. Were they clipping passwords to 16 chars before and not telling anyone? That sounds bad, but the alternatives sound much worse.

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