These .winmd files provide the default metadata for the Windows API. This is used to generate the windows and windows-sys crates. To view the metadata, use a tool like ILSpy.

Windows.Win32.winmd

Windows.Wdk.winmd

Windows.winmd

The Windows.winmd file was created by merging the .winmd files from the last nuget package as follows:

mdmerge -o out -i . -n 1

As with everything else in this repo, the .winmd files in this folder are licensed via MIT or Apache-2.0.