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Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
(www.gamingonlinux.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What's the twist? There must be some reason.
They officially don't care about running .NET applications on Linux anymore. They never really did before but so few people fell for that trap Microsoft is finally ready to turn in the towel
It's more they are focused on running ASP and CLI apps on Linux, there is no official MS GUI library/framework for Linux which is one big thing missing from modern .net, there are a couple of thrid party ones like Avalonia however.