Nothing wrong with using Windows at all. That wasn't the problem.
As for the actual problem here of any down time (and the nonsense competence claims).
PRC never really got out of "Beta", as soon as we were beta testing the poker people wanted the site to stay up and have me just add things to it.
So what was the problem this time?
"We never really got out of beta"? Maybe you should warn investors that you are still in a testing phase before inviting them to invest...