Comment Re:What's next? (Score 1) 437
It's not a patent for cookies, It's a patent for server side storage. The cookie may be used to identify the user, but the data is to be stored on the server (perhaps in a SQL database).
Basically any site with registrations that are stored on the server is in violation of MS's patent. I'm sure they'll be kinda enough to come up with a license fee for you to access your server database.
Course the solution is to not create HTML pages. What about XML only web pages. More confusing but still an option.
Even more farfetched, we can adopt a new web page format. SWF? PDF? Or let's just prerender everything into PNG files.