Toshiba Corp. is putting out an 8-inch touch screen tablet this month, which it describes as a pocket-sized device that runs the full version of Windows 8.1.
Running on an Intel Atom processor and with the smaller screen size, you might expect Toshiba’s new Encore tablet to run Windows RT 8.1, the lighter version of Windows 8 that Microsoft Corp. designed to run on lower-powered processors used for mobile devices. But with Intel’s chips for mobile devices coming down in price and offering similar battery life to the popular ARM chipsets, it may be that fewer manufacturers see a need to sacrifice the additional capability offered by Windows 8. (Windows RT for example, won’t run Windows legacy software compatible with Windows 7 and earlier. It is limited to the Windows Store apps.)
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