[bunjeejmpr]

How many computers run windows 8?

This info is not some special epoch to anything. Save the resource use.

This is high tech not conservative politics. What's high tech about old operating systems?

[integralid]

More than zero. There are some people who will keep maintaining them, and could use this - or one of other retired questions.

There is also historic value, it would be sad if in 30 years almost all information about modern day operating systems is erased.

[PhasmaFelis]

A few kilobytes of text is not a resource that needed saving.