Microsoft Manual of Style 3rd Edition - Pub'd 2003?

[Janice Gelb]

Fred Ridder wrote:
> 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". 
>  

I'm a bit surprised to hear this: even though our preferred
style is to use "log in," we have an entry for both, and the
"log on" entry indicates that "log in" is our preferred term.

-- Janice

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