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 live migration, the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they're running.

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Already their numbers have been decimated by marriage and migration. (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.

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"It's a failure of their system and the oppressive policies that the Castro regime carries out, and frankly a failure to live up to their international agreement on these migration accords, " Reeker said.

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