Get your damn facts straight, stupid. MS hired Akamai to mirror their static contents, and Akamai runs Linux, that easy. All dynamic contents run on Windows 2003 and IIS6. And dont even try to show me Netcraft stats, because they probed mostly only the Akamai servers.
Some of you dont get the logic of it, right? It serves release groups nothing! Granted, they have a hint to crack it faster, there might be a beta out before release, but dont you think that Valve will change some essential code? VAC and authentication are probably on top of the list to be...
Actually on some older interview Gabe said that they reused code. Mainly only the renderer has been rewritten according to him. Also, the UT2 engine is an evolutionary version to the original engine. The Q3 engine is an evolutionary version to the Q1 engine. And so on. So yeah, what is the big...