HT5634 Why is Boot Camp 5 not supprted on my mid 2009 MacBoook Pro and is it ever going to be supported?

I currently have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro. The hardware is perfectly capable of handling Windows 8 Pro without an issue, so why is this model Macbook Pro not supported with Boot Camp 5? Also, are there any plans to support it in the future?
Thanks.

I did it! Well it's installing as we speak. Craziness. My mid 09 MBP started to not read my DVD with the ISO file for windows 8, I'll tell you what, those cleaning discs you can buy made my SuperDrive work again, thank god, I was getting really frustrated. Here's what I did.
-open bootcamp assistant 5.0. (If your on 10.8.3 like I unluckily at this time was)
-click install windows 7
-partition the space you want
-here's the clincher, if you have a windows 8 install disc, bootcamp will not proceed, you need to have a windows 7 iso, which you can find on the net, it's not piracy if you don't intend to license it, we are just using it to "trick" bootcamp to partition our drive correctly.
-your MBP will restart and go into windows 7 install mode
- click the x to cancel the win7 installation, it warns you it will restart.
-upon restart, you'll hear the beloved Mac chime, immediately hold down the "option" key
-you'll now see your main startup disk, and recovery disk, hit eject and yank that trick or treater win7 disc and insert your windows 8 disc
-wait a bit and you'll see the windows disc icon pop up next to your main startup and recovery disk.
-click the windows disc and install!
*you may have to plug a wired mouse in at this time, my touchpad will move the cursor, but clicks are not recognized...yet
-------my install is almost complete, I will post results here for any other orphaned by apple and win8 mid 09 MacBook Pro users. There will be some driver work we must do next I'm sure.

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My intention is to install Windows 7 on my Mac
(I've several Windows OS .iso images)
in the "BOOTCAMP" called partition, created by Boot Camp 3.0 application, on my internal drive.
This is a 32 GB partition, being FAT32 formatted,
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will surely want to be on an NTFS volume and reformat it.
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Thank you very much in advance for your help !
With my kind regards,
Olivier Herrbach
Message was edited by: Olivier Herrbach

Dear baltwo,
Thank you very much for your feedback.
I'll go there immediately. It's obvious for me that only one .iso file, alone on a DVD, can't be sufficient, comparing with +(but I don't know what)+ is on a Microsoft Windows Install DVD.
With my kind regards
Olivier Herrbach
PS : I didn't have any time to reply to anyone, when I asked "How can I move something (copying it) without leaving original in it's place ?". Someone had the answer : "Drag and hold down cmd while releasing mouse". OK, it works, but you have to have good nerves, because folders open when doing that (I changed delay in Finder Preferences to the slowest), and there's also another inconvenient : I don't trust in copy (I want a one by one byte result), so I have to write what Get Info says BEFORE, and compare it after that with what Get Info says. In this case, I prefer to return to my old habits.
PPS : I observed, and I will tell it somewhere when possible, that *Get Info gives false informations*.
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