Editing Advanced Power Management (section)

{{Short description|API for power management in IBM-compatible computers}}
{{Infobox technology standard
| title             = Advanced Power Management
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| abbreviation      = APM
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| status            = Deprecated
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| first_published   = 1992
| version           = 1.2
| version_date      = 1996
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| organization      = [[Intel]], [[Microsoft]]
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| successor        =  [[ACPI]]
| domain            = [[Power management]]
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| website           = {{Web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961220165301/http://www.intel.com/IAL/powermgm/apmovr.htm|title=intel.com/IAL/powermgm}}
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'''Advanced power management''' ('''APM''') is a [[technical standard]] for [[power management]] developed by [[Intel]] and [[Microsoft]] and released in 1992<ref name="APM_spec_V12" /> 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]].<ref>Intel Corporation, "NewsBit: Microsoft, Intel Develop Power Standard", Microcomputer Solutions, March/April 1992, page 1</ref>

Revision 1.2 was the last version of the APM specification, released in 1996. [[Advanced Configuration and Power Interface|ACPI]] is the successor to APM. Microsoft dropped support for APM in [[Windows Vista]]. The [[Linux|Linux kernel]] still mostly supports APM, though support for APM CPU idle was dropped in version 3.0.