"best shot" is their term for modes that are set for the best picture for that shot. Preset modes you might also call it. Rather than 10 different dial settings for portraits or fast motion - they have about 30 camera settings (and you can create your own)

It's a very nice little feature that I enjoy on my Z850

I think you're making some really big leaps of logic.. I'll explain: Google search is not necessarily the most efficient carrier of Google Adsense Of course it isn't, but it enables them to deliver much more efficiently targeted advertising, which is what makes their ads good. Google is doing projects like Google Pack, GTalk, Orkut, and GMail that have NOTHING to do with indexing the worlds data Gmail and Orkut are completely about data. One is email, the other is personal meta-data. That is in fact all the services are: and that gives them better targeted adverts again. Google has built the largest grid computing networking in the world with hundreds of thousands of computers - extending this to a desktop OS would be a cake walk. Why? How? If anything it would require much much more work than a regualar OS (network balancing etc). Google haven't shown any previous OS programming mettle, so to say they would find this easy is a stretch. Google has hired folks who worked on Open Office Basically the only point in favour of an Google Office, which I concider much more likley. GMail's WYSIWYG is 90% of Microsoft Word. Everyone and their brother is making web-based word processors and spreadsheets today. 90% is a bit harsh. Perhaps 10%, if that, but the 10% that is used 90% of the time. Again, a point for a Google Office, not a Google OS. Email, contacts, and calendar=Outlook. Outlook=Microsoft Office. Office=Microsoft's main revenue stream. Again, Google Office, not Google OS. Google's server network is the only one in existence that could handle a hosted office suite--GMAIL has proven that. How has it? Yahoo and MS both have just as popular email services, in fact arguably more popular. This point is just baseless. Microsoft is making a web-based version of Office a major priority. That keeps slipping, and has dropped off the radar when it comes to announcements. Don't expect to see this soon. Steve Jobs said that he would never make a video iPod for two years--then he did. Apple still haven't released a Video iPod - the new one is a music player that happens to play video. Some may say that is splitting hairs, but it is an important difference in marketing and outlook. Video playback is just a feature of the 5G, not the focus. Overall there is very little content here! The claims for a desktop that you say here have been repeated time and again, and they don't get any more convincing each time. A web based office suite? Probably. A web based OS? Unlikely. Even if there was a Google OS, it would probably just be a re-branded Linux, and thats not going to get any market share when your mum and dad can't play the latest solitare game on it...