You can, but general attitude from windows programming community is to do one "right" way. I had real hacking feeling with windows development only when I was

You can, but general attitude from windows programming community is to do one "right" way. I had real hacking feeling with windows development only when I was doing some assembler windows programming. But this makes sense, since I was communicating in the same community where real (virii, malware writer) hackers were asking/answering internals-related questions.