Speculation on existence of Windows 7 Release Candidate

When I'm discussing with my friends about Windows 7, the Windows enthusiast people in the group always bring the Release Candidate (RC) matter. I'm also feeling very enthusiastic about this speculated RC build. It seems that latest 'leaked' build 7048 have some close connection with the RC, some MS MVPs even started quoting it as the RC build. I managed to have a peek into this particular build on a friend's machine, it's really better than the previous public beta. But I don't think this is going to be the Release Candidate or whatever, this is just a 'internal' build that was not intended to be leaked into general users' hands. In fact, when Neowin almost surely telling that April 10 is definitely set for public release of RC, I think it will be something like build 7060 or 7064 that is going to be selected for RC. Let's see what happens on 10th of the coming month.

UPDATE : I have gone a step forward and even discussed about the most appropriate release date of Windows 7 RTM for MS. Check it out @ http://tinyurl.com/cy2ymc