What's up with external drives?

I found a FAQ here that says that Windows can't be on an external drive when using Boot Camp. That *****.
Here's why. I have a Windows box. I hate it, but there's a lot of software I use for work already installed on it. It'd be so much easier to just take out my C drive, put it in an external casing and then connect it to my Mac running Boot Camp so I can finally be free of the beast.
But no, I have to figure out where all my install discs are (tough after moving house twice in the past year), and then install XP as well as all the other software on a new partition once I upgrade to Leopard (when Adobe supports it).

you can run OS X from external drives. And it is Microsoft's and not Apple's limitation in that regard.
You can do what you say if you use a VM (Fusion etc). And they can use and import from external drives, BootCamp partition, and use it from there.
I wish I could install Vista as easily on external RAID as I can with OS X, but it seems too complicated to attempt and not supported. I keep all my docs and files and email though on a non-system drive, both in Vista and OS X. So whether using ultimate or home premium I have access to all my files. Same in OS X.

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    Thanks!

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