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In a note on its website, Apple reaffirmed that the Boot Camp Beta programme expires when Mac OS 10.5 Leopard becomes available in October 2007.

Apple said when Boot Camp was introduced in April 2006 that the final version of the software for running Windows on a Mac would be included with Leopard. At the time the plan was to release Leopard in the spring of this year, but that date was put back by the iPhone. Apple has still to say precisely when Leopard will go on sale.

Since Boot Camp was unveiled, more flexible commercial alternatives such as Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMWare's Fusion have been introduced. Unlike Boot Camp, which requires that the Mac quit OS X to reboot in Windows, these allow Windows and Windows applications to run within and alongside OS X.