Anyone recall as far back as October, when Apple promised it would update Boot Camp by year’s end to support Windows 7? Turns out, they might have been fibbing.

According to AppleInsider, Apple is likely to miss their self-imposed year-end deadline for officially supporting Microsoft’s Windows 7 under Boot Camp, pending any last-minute, New Year’s Eve updates that seem unlikely at best.

Back in October, Apple wrote in a support document: “Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp.”

As it turns out, Windows 7 already runs quite well under Boot Camp, at least on our 15” MacBook Pro 2.63 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. We were able to wipe our former Windows XP installation and install Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade Edition) without too many hitches. The only hiccup we’ve seen for now is some occasional funkiness with the trackpad driver, but otherwise the Boot Camp drivers included with Snow Leopard work just fine.

AppleInsider queried an Apple support representative to find out if Cupertino had any last-minute Software Update surprises in store for us, but the rep said that his division -- which fields Boot Camp-related questions -- had received no update on the situation.

The rep also believes that the Boot Camp update is still undergoing tests, and said it was “very unlikely” that such an update would surface in the next 24 hours before the curtain falls on 2009. We’d say look for this one early next year, folks.