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RE: Microsoft Manual of Style 3rd Edition - Pub'd 2003?
Subject:RE: Microsoft Manual of Style 3rd Edition - Pub'd 2003? From:Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Barbara Vega <barbarav -at- libertyims -dot- com>, techwr-l List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 1 May 2008 16:08:41 -0400
Barbara Vega wrote (in part):
> BTW - I flipped through the 2nd edition and could not find "login" as
> one of the terms. It is not in there at all.
You didn't find "login" (or "log in") because that is *NIX terminology.
Microsoft's decided that in the Windows world you log _on_ rather
than in, so the terms you'll find in MSMoS are "logon" and "log on".
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