&gt; The card may have been released in 2007 but the system was purchased new in 2012.<p>You purchased a 5 year old Vista machine in 2012?<p>If it was actually from 2012 you wouldn&#x27;t have needed to spend &quot;£100+&quot; for Windows 8, it would have shipped with it. Not to mention that in 2012 Windows 8 upgrade only cost £14.99[0] for the upgrade edition (the promotion ended January 31st 2013).<p>&gt; Yet clearly MS know that&#x27;s not the case (now if not at release).<p>They don&#x27;t &quot;clearly [.] know that.&quot; They don&#x27;t go through and test every piece of hardware one by one. They often just depend on what the manufacturer of that hardware (namely Nvidia) tells them. In this case Nvidia offered drivers for XP, Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64). They did not offer drivers for 8&#x2F;8.1 or 10.<p>So Microsoft looks up the device, the device doesn&#x27;t have a compatible driver, so they decide not to upgrade. Last thing Microsoft need is a bunch of threads about how &quot;Microsoft broke my computer during upgrade!!!&quot; The Windows 7 driver mostly works, and that is great, but Microsoft has no way of knowing that without testing every piece of potential hardware one by one.<p>&gt; What do you call false statements made to increase sales if not fraud?<p>Microsoft made none.<p>This is one of those &quot;damned if they do, and damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; situations. If they do what you want and are more liberal with upgrades (e.g. upgrade anything with a working Windows 7 driver) then there is a real chance they could effectively upgrade people&#x27;s computer to a version of the OS which the hardware doesn&#x27;t support, however if they don&#x27;t upgrade those computers then people moan about &quot;fraud&quot; and &quot;lies.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;news&#x2F;computing&#x2F;microsoft-confirms-windows-8-upgrade-offer-uk-pricing-1084035" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;news&#x2F;computing&#x2F;microsoft-confirm...</a>