I demonstrated the Power Management API of the Microsoft Platform SDK during the launch of Microsoft's Academic Projects Program here in Bangalore. Microsoft Platform SDK is a colelction of powerful APIs which you can play around with to do a bit of system-level programming. You could use the Microsoft VC++ compiler to compile your programs. The Power Management Demo I showed is pretty simple and straight-forward. The user is intimated through an alert when there is a change in power source. In a...