The Times, They Are A-Changin'.

     From time to time, a platform- the newspaper, the car, Windows 98- any standard- begins to fall out of use, or be used less and less. The question always turns out to: "Will X be phased out?" Inevitably, people begin to render all sorts of futures without X, and soon enough, people move onto the next big thing, and forget all about X. The truth is, though, X isn't dead- just not as preferable.