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> From: Suzette Seveny[SMTP:sseveny -at- PETVALU -dot- COM]
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> The Microsoft Manual of Style states:
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> 'Use "log on to" to refer to connection to a network .....:
> "Do not use "log in", "login", "log onto" ..... or "sign on".
> "Use "logon" only as an adjective, as in "logon password", not as a
> noun."
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> So in your case, I think you would refer to the "Logon screen/window".
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Of course, that is only the case if you or your company chooses for some
reason to adhere to the Microsoft Manual of Style. (After all, it is
only the manual of style that Microsoft developed for their use.) In
the rest of the world, I have found the "log in at the login prompt"
context to be more popular, and in fact I have used it everywhere I've
worked except one place: Microsoft. There is no single correct answer
to your question.
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)
