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This comment is all wrong actually.

Can you be more specific? I was trying to be helpful and my comment got down voted to oblivion.

I was using Azure today and they still use Silverlight for admin - which mean i can not use it on my Mac.

Remote Desktop is the DEFAULT access - they DO support SSH, but the service is not on out of the box.

AFAIK Silverlight is only required admin the legacy share cache service, which has been end-of-lifed (hence the reluctance to spend the effort needed to support it in the web-based portal). They recently announced that they would keep the Silverlight legacy portal around for a bit longer do give people more time to move away from the shared cache service.

I use Azure every day and I haven't needed to touch the Silverlight portal in months.

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