I want to be able to login with Azure but I can't use the az CLI

[fjakobs]

Some users have reported that they are either not allowed to install the Azure CLI or for some other reasons can't use them.

Add a way to login to Azure without having to install the Azure CLI.

[fjakobs]

One option would be to leverage the Azure Account extension, which is used by all of Microsoft's Azure extensions.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.azure-account

[gbrueckl]

in Databricks Power Tools we leverage VSCode built-in authentication providers for Microsoft Accounts
https://github.com/paiqo/Databricks-VSCode/blob/master/src/vscode/treeviews/connections/DatabricksConnectionManagerAzure.ts#L233

this avoids the dependency to Azure Account extension which I also had problems with in the past as the latest version does not support
microsoft/vscode-azure-account#443
Azure/azure-sdk-for-js#20500