The version he knew best was legacy by every metric—InTouch 9.5, a one-off of the early 2000s, designed before the mass migration to modern OSes. It ran on Windows 7, or rather, it ran best on the stubborn, customized Windows 7 images Evan's team kept alive for the plant's older workstations. The 9.5 runtime screens were plain—bitmap buttons, flat gradients, tag structures that read like the factory’s heartbeat—but to Evan they were intimate and reliable: the difference between a screen that showed a conveyor belt's load as a harmless number and one that indicated a real product jam.
You still need a legitimate Windows 7 license. If you have an OEM sticker on your old IPC, that license can often activate a VM. Wonderware Intouch 9.5 Windows 7 To Download
Because this version is long out of mainstream and extended support, it is no longer available as a public download from AVEVA (formerly Wonderware). The version he knew best was legacy by