Wachovia analyst Phillip Rueppel says the beta version of Microsoft's Hyper-V isn't wowing customers because it lacks some critical features, such as so-called livemigration, the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they're running.
Already their numbers have been decimated by marriage andmigration. (Some 40, 000 Macanese now live abroad.) They and their once-graceful port at the mouth of the Pearl River will have a hard time maintaining a distinct identity under mainland rule.