PageRange Metric is Outdated?

Is it truth? Is Google really going to remove Google TBPR? I guess that’s it. Seo PageRange parameter is outdated.

Susan Moskwa (Google Employee) said :
‘We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.’

You may ask about the link trade industry I can say just that it is time already to stop broker businesses and website owners take into account scoring metric pagerank value only. The fact is there are many ways to improve you blogs and sites with a quality and informative content and good style no taking any notice to such illusive parameter as PR.