Reading about the evil empire
I can proudly claim to never have done any windows development, despite using and program PC compatible systems for some 15 years.
Now I've started reading a book on MS(TM) Windows(TM) Device Drivers. No, I do not intend to write any such drivers. However, there are numerous cases where some i386 windows driver is all the "documentation" that a hardware vendor provides. So in order to more efficiently understand the disassembly of windows drivers, I'm now reading my first book on the evil empire.