Today March 24th is OS X’s 6th birthday! It was March 24, 2001 when OS X 10.0 was released.

OS X 10.0 was code named Cheetah and was the first official release of the OS. There was a public beta prior to it but this was the first official release. It was sold for 129.95 USD. Although the OS was somewhat buggy and was not as polished as it is today, it was an important milestone for Apple and the Macintosh community. OS X was many years in the making, it was a complete overhaul of the Mac OS, a process which had started in 1996.

Though the OS was buggy, it was praised as a major step forward and a good start to a brand new Mac OS, there were however, legions of Mac OS 9 users who were not so happy about the change in the OS.

OS X 10.1 (Puma) was released just 6 short months later and was given as a free upgrade to anyone who paid for 10.0.

Yesterday in the Mac Rumor world… there was a rumor (a pretty silly one if you ask me) that OS 10.5 “Leopard” , which was announced to be released in “Spring 2007″ would be delayed until October of 2007. The rumor claimed that Apple needed the extra time to make Boot Camp Vista compliant. This seemed like a ridiculous story to me because:

• Boot Camp’s Beta is already Vista compliant
• In order for an end user to legally use Boot Camp with Vista, they’d have to buy a license for Vista Ultimate
• Boot Camp could be updated separately or in a 10.5.x upgrade

The rumor was debunked by Apple today and Digitimes, the source of the story has apologized for starting the rumor.

That being said…when is Leopard coming? I’m not saying it’s late (it’s really only the first week of Spring), I’m just saying I want it already!