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I’d be willing to bet some internet karma that this was a simple mistake during packaging and an errant folder create was accidentally included. I’d be incredibly surprised if any IIS components are activated by this update or if anything beyond the folder existing is out of the ordinary for the system.

I haven't used Windows in years. But one of the main things that pushed me away was how they constantly just shit all over your hard drive. I used to keep a really, really clean Windows filesystem, but I wasn't able to keep it up after I started getting tons of folders called C:\fli32uf09823f0u32fj3209f8u. Total disrespect to your users.

Don't get me started on the services control panel. Where it used to be clear what was running and what wasn't. Now the whole OS just looks like Malware.

Don't be surprised if Microsoft deploys a Tailscale-like setup to implicitly stay connected to a fleet of Windows machines and then use this IIS setup to exfiltrate CoPilot logs when CoPilot receives a prompt and locally decides you are doing bad things.

This sounds like some marketing stunt so microsoft can claim to be the most widely deployed website in the world, mostly by virtue of it installing itself to every windoze 11 desktop like most malware/potentially unwanted programs (pup).

It wouldn't be the first time they pull some shenanigans like that such as when they paid GoDaddy to switch their web parking from Apache to IIS circa 2005, and suddenly IIS was the most-used web server across (mostly parked) domains on the internet overnight as their marketing team quickly disseminated.

For anyone else who didn’t know (like me):

> inetpub is a system folder on Windows that gets created when you install IIS (Internet Information Services) — which is Windows’ built-in web server.

So what are we serving?

Some manager just had to use the opportunity to pull some bullshit

Good god. And Microsoft wonders why people are so reluctant to install updates or upgrade to Windows 11.

MS, get your shit in order, and stop forcing AI slop, advertising and untested updates down our throats.

Now every computer is a web server, and as a bonus you run IIS.