RE: Log In or Login?

["Nuckols, Kenneth M" <Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com>]

Arroxane said...

> 
>  [clip]
> network. Use 'sign in' and 'sing out' to refer to creating and ending
a
                              ^^^^^^^^
> suer session on the Internet. Do not use 'log in', 'login', 'log
onto',
  ^^^^
>  I used single quotes instead of italics, but you get the gist.
> 

With all that singin' it's no wonder they're getting sued! Sorry to do
that Arroxane, but I just couldn't resist.  Typos are
understandable--it's Monday, after all! ;-)

And to answer your serious question, in the case of the documentation
project my team was discussing last week, the application UI does say
"login" instead of "logon" as the MS Style Guide suggests.

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