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What is an RTF file? Page 5 of
the Release Notes under 'Details links of software update packages' mentions RTF
files but I can't find an explanation in any of the documentation or in the
newsgroup postings on what exactly an RTF is?
From the microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs
newsgroup
RTF stands (or stood) for Read This First. It was a term that was used in
the Windows Update site long ago (about 3 years ago) and was a link (that
said, amazingly, Read This First) that would lead to a locally cached HTM
page that contained a more detailed description of the update, along with
another link that lead to the KB page about the update itself. The link was
changed a year or so ago to "Read More..." but the term RTF still hangs
around and is used quite a bit inside Microsoft.
In the Automatic Updates SP1 binaries, the locally cached HTM page is no
longer used, so the link no longer exists, but it was likely a mistake to
refer to "RTF" since that's not a widely known or used term outside of the
Windows Update team itself.
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