I am unable to find official Microsoft documentation on why these 2 seemingly identical commands exist. I found some forum posts indicating net1.exe was added way back in the late 90's as a temporary Y2K solution, but that suggests the two executables are actually different. As far as I can tell, they do exactly the same thing on Win10 or Win11. Does anyone know the origin of net1.exe and why Microsoft is maintaining 2 seemingly identical EXEs?