http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8131
--- Comment #8 from Mike Rooney bugzilla@rowk.com 2008-09-12 20:02:43 --- Okay, to add more information, Minitab1511_30Day_English.exe seems to work fine (Minitab 15.1.1.0), although the full version of Minitab 15.1.0.0 (slightly older version) does not. It could be an issue that they fixed. From what I have read 15.1.0 didn't work on Vista and 15.1.1 fixed that, so perhaps whatever they did generally improved compatibility.
However since 15.1.0 works on XP it seems logical to expect that Wine in XP mode could also run it. Perhaps now it is lower priority though.