title: Is the Rich Text Format deprecated?
body: <p>From the Wikipedia page on Rich Text Format (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format</a>):</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>As of March 2008, the current version is 1.9.1. According to Microsoft's Office 2010
    resource kit documentation, Microsoft is discontinuing enhancements to the RTF 
    specification. Further, some new features in Word 2010 and later versions will not save 
    properly to the RTF format.[11]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The reference is to here:
  <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179199.aspx#BKMK_Changed">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179199.aspx#BKMK_Changed</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm working on including some static, formatted text which will be pulled from a local database and will be displayed by an app that is only being used internally.</p>
  
  <p>Should I use the Rich Text Format via .NET's built-in RichTextBox?  Will it be deprecated in the near future for Microsoft's new OpenXML format?</p>
  
  <p>Would it be better to skip Rich Text altogether and go with HTML formatting?  If so, what .NET control would you recommend?</p>
  
  <p>Obviously I don't want to design my own text formatting control for such a trivial problem, but I don't want to waste development time implementing a nearly deprecated technology.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>