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Cause a) recently they've been showing more interest in developing for different platforms (OneNote, Visual Studio Code); b) the other major browsers have a Linux release; c) IE had a release for Linux at some point; and d) there is a market of people that might use their product.

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They had a version for Unix. It probably ran on Linux through a compatibility layer but it was not designed for any Linux distro.

And that was a long time ago when they were competing with Netscape. It was easy for them to do that because the original IE was mostly a branded version of Spyglass's Mosaic which was designed from the beginning to run on Unix and Windows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.

Not easy in my opinion, IE is a hard user of Windows APIs.

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