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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Simatic WinCC V7.0
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 18 April 2008
Visualisation software offers Vista
compatibility
Siemens Automation and Drives has expanded the functionality of its visualisation system Simatic WinCC in the new version 7.0.
Siemens Automation and Drives has expanded the functionality of its visualisation system Simatic WinCC in version 7.0 The universal scalable visualisation system now offers operation in accordance with Windows Vista, easy language switching, high-performance analysis functions and an integrated MS SQL Server archive database
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Expansions to the WinCC/WebNavigator option simplify the multitabbing of Internet Explorer V7.0, in which multiple websites can be simultaneously opened.
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