I remember windows 3.1.

Back in those days, the way they shipped - mmm it was a thing of beauty. I had to reinstall it every 2-3 months it was that good.

OTOH, if it wasn't that good we would be using something else, good and better that win3.1 and the history would erase Windows.

The big lie started when they conned people into calling the next version, 3.11 three point one one. Its pretty obvious now with the benefit of hindsight that is an eleven and big tech had to hide the fact they were transitioning from completed code to incomplete code in the unreleased versions 2 through 10.