Advanced Power Management

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Advanced Power Management (APM) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

ACPI is intended as the successor to APM. Microsoft has dropped support for APM in Windows Vista.

[edit] See also

• Green computing
• Power management

[edit] External links

• APM V1.2 Specification (RTF file).

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.