just confirming what others have experienced as well:
today, on Jun 26 2009, the link mentioned in the article
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=144346leads to a the download page for"Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Management Studio Express".
Downloading this 170MB monster and invoking it opens the "SQL Server Installation" where you can choose "Add features to an existing instance". Fine. The list with features presented then does not contain any reference to the "Management Studio Express". The only thing to check there is the "SQL Client Connectivity SDK".
But after installing it, without surpize I don't have a SSMSE after going through the installation procedure.
This is really ridiculous!!!
So - without removing the already running SQL Server 2008 installation - how do I get SSMSE?
Where is the standalone SSMSE download?
[Tai Yee - MSFT] that is the correct place to download SSME. You may have had SQL Express already installed by Visual Studio, in which case you will need to remove it first. See the other Community Content items contributed to this topic above, in particular the ones titled "Trying to install Server Management Studio after first installing Visual Studio Product" and "You dont need to remove any instance you have created". Another good idea would be to read the Release Notes that are linked from the Instructions section of that download page. Here is the direct path to the Release Notes:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/e/49eeb41a-a769-4520-80d6-671b8ae2bd06/SQLServer2008ReleaseNotes.htm
6/30/2009