"If you want Vista, you need a new machine, " says Michael Cherry, lead operating system analyst, Directions on Microsoft.
The Japanese system, complains Mitsuo Ohmi, a drug analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (Asia) Ltd.
Will he walk the talk or will, as one analyst fears, "the system devour him"?
"The once-lionized keiretsu system has become a liability, " says analyst Chris Redl at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Tokyo.
"In some ways he's a victim of his own success in that he helped build a system with these multiyear contracts, " says Stifel Nicolaus analyst Ben Mogil.
Paul Corrigan, a health analyst who once advised Tony Blair, believes the system needs many more hospital takeovers.
Adam Leach, principal analyst at research firm Ovum, calls the new system "well-designed" and says the new phones should appeal to existing BlackBerry users.
But Macquarie Group analyst Steve Harris points out that Italy's banking system is generally well funded by deposits, and Peace is encouraged by plans to recapitalize struggling Spanish savings banks.
"They're the only company that actually forced Microsoft off of the operating system because of their integrated Safari browser, " says Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, referring to the latest version of Apple's OS X software.
"If European policymakers were looking for a way to undermine the public trust that underpins the foundation of any banking system they could not have done a better job, " said Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets.
Jan Dawson, senior telecoms analyst at Ovum, said home was the "next best thing" to creating a Facebook operating system for mobiles.
"Android is poised to take over as the leading smartphone operating system in 2011 after racing into the number 2 position in 2010, " said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team.
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He is not going to go off-message without a lot of discussion inside the campaign on how they wanted to handle it, " said Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.
"If Romney pushes hard the same meme the GOP leaders are pushing, he looks like a complete flip-flopper, " Norm Ornstein, a veteran political analyst and author of "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, " said before Romney revealed his position in interviews on Wednesday.
"The banking system is in difficulty, but it's not in danger of collapse by any means, " says credit analyst Stracke.
Before becoming chief of the Chicago system in 1995, he was budget director for Mayor Richard Daley, and before that was Illinois' top budget analyst.
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