I think Adam meant ‘due to the Licensing/piracy excuse’ ;-)

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Adam McCullough

Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that isn't very MS-happy.

Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm pretty sure Windows protects against that. Licensing/piracy reasons.