Apple Inc. has eventually announced the release date of its new Macintosh operating system, Leopard. The new version of the Mac OS X operating system will hit the market starting with the 26^th of October 2007. This way Apple Inc. has eventually ended all the contradictory rumors that have been floating on the different Mac-orientated web sites and blogs and not only.

As Apple Inc. has already delayed the release of the new operating system, different sources have started to have contradictory opinions about whether Apple Inc. will be able to launch Leopard in October, as promised, or not. The controversy has started also because Apple has not made any public announcement till now, the 16^th of October.

However, the irony that one could find related to Leopard is the fact that Apple Inc. has delayed its launch because the company’s teams’ work on the iPhone, which is now the main topic of one of the most problematic controversies ever. Recently, Apple Inc. has really upset its clients because of its moves with the iPhone. The company’s first iPhone software update has frozen the ultimate gadgets and the customers have been quite maddened by this move. On Monday Apple has also been gunned by another institution; Greenpeace has said that their research has proved that the iPhone is quite a toxic phone.

However, maybe Leopard will be capable of helping Apple’s image. Leopard represents the sixth update of the company’s Mac OS X software. The operating system will cost $129 for one single user, and $199 for a family pack for five computers.

"This is going to be great for Mac momentum, which has already been strong for the past few year years. This is just one more thing on top of that.” – Phil Schiller, the company’s vice president of marketing, has said.