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As much as I get annoyed by the little help pop up balloons in Windows and Office, I think that'd be a great addition to the login screen. It could detect when people are doing the click, type, click, type thing, and it could (hopefully unobtrusively) remind them that they can press tab.

Wow, listen to me, I sound like a Microsoft employee or something.


To properly sound like an MS employee, you need to make sure such a feature is on all the time, even for all the users who already know to hit tab. Or, maybe allow it to be turned off by hiding a checkbox 8 levels deep in some arcane control panel and offer no way to search for it. If the checkbox is there, make sure any patch to the system turns it back on, even if the patch is to something different.

Clearly you haven't been at MS long enough to be fully aligned with the collectives thought patterns :-)