Over the years, many firms have developed custom software that is crucial to their business, yet runs only on Windows XP machines.
The Wrestler runs on what are admittedly pretty traditional lines for a sports film, yet runs on them with exhilarating speed and attack.
The film has a B-movie sheen, yet runs to two hours 20 minutes and takes itself rather too seriously for an old-fashioned potboiler.
Pitting punk rockers against neo-Nazis in a confined, effortfully grisly fight to the death, it works up some efficient cat-and-mouse tension upfront yet runs out of complicating factors – for its characters and narrative alike – even before the halfway mark.
We're told that some PC software that as yet runs only in a single-threaded mode suffers a slowdown when run on a computer with a hyperthreading chip.
A few go so far as to predict Jobs will announce a Mac operating system that runs Windows Vista, or better yet, runs Vista programs without running Vista itself.
