"Microsoft mentioned that some subscribers were hosting movies and large files on the service"
You mean they... they... they were using what they were giving? Those greedy bastards!
"Why in the hell are schools requiring students to use Chromebooks?"
Cost. Less technical problems than MacOS/Windows/Linux. Easy to collaborate with others, etc.
And yes, I'm the IT guy for a school handing out Chromebooks. Two full time IT employees, 1500 students, 300 staff. Chromebooks just do the job well.
Yes Sir our code is breakable, you just have to brute force it for a few thousand years or have a REALLY fast collection of computers. Do you have that Minister? Oh, you don't? Well, it's still breakable, just not by YOU then:)