My father&#x27;s Microsoft Windows 8 computer had the Windows 10 upgrade prompt as expected but when followed it said it wasn&#x27;t possible to upgrade because his Nvidia graphics (GeForce 7025&#x2F; NVIDIA nForce 630a) was &quot;unable to run Windows 10&quot; and that Nvidia was responsible for not making it &quot;compatible&quot;.<p>Note they didn&#x27;t say it was just &quot;not supported&quot; but that it was _unable_ to run and was incompatible.<p>An example image of the error is shown here, http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ivanrf.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;nvidia-compatibility-issue-with-windows-10&#x2F; (nvidia-compatibility-windows-10-01-en.jpg).<p>Note Microsoft in their misleading error message give a handy link allowing you to purchase a new computer from them ... how, er, convenient.<p>The only thing is that the computer is completely able to run Windows 10. Running the upgrade using a Microsoft tool that was easily downloaded the computer ran, even without driver upgrade (albeit with reduced graphics) and after a simple graphics driver update (with an Nvidia.com downloaded installer) was fully working.<p>Clearly Microsoft lied in saying that the upgrade was impossible, their tool did it perfectly.<p>What should the response to this sort of fraud be? I wonder how many users like my father assumed they had to get a new computer to get Windows 10?
Ask HN: Microsoft lied about upgradability of our computer, how mad should we be?