Description: What is the new Windows 8 feature called Measured Boot?

Measured Boot is a new feature of Windows 8 that was created to help better protect your machine from rootkits and other malware. Measured Boot will check each start up component including the firmware all the way to the boot drivers and it will store this information in what is called a Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

The reason this feature helps is that before anything is started up in the boot sequence it will be compared to the TPM to make sure the software is trustworthy and not infected by a virus.

Microsoft provides more information about this new feature here.