Which SSMS 2008 to install on Windows 8.1

Question

This may sound like a non-question, but I have a 64-bit Windows 8.1 computer with Visual Studio 2010 Premium x86 installed.
VS installed SQL Server 2008, but I want to install SQL Management Studio Express 2008 as well. 
After reading about a compatibility issue, I installed Service Pack3,  SQLServer2008SP3-KB2546951-x64-ENU.
When I went to the download page for SSMS, I find there are 2-flavors available, x86 and x64.
Which should I install and if I choose the x64 version for my 64-bit Windows, will it work with my Visual Studio x86 install?
As just an FYI as to why I have the x86 Visual Studio; I previously had it along with SSMS Express 2008 installed on a 32-bit Windows-XP system , which crashed and after purchasing a new system with Windows 8.1, I wanted to install the Visual Studio
and SSMS again.
Thank you

Answer 1

Upon following the help link, one suggestion was to start the SQL Server Browser Service. But I found that SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Browser service missing in services. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be part of a separate install, but it's missing
and therefore cannot be started. It also does not see a default instance of the server, which should be the computer name\SQLEXPRESS.
When I initially installed Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 8.1 system, it should have installed SQL Server 2008. Finding that there could have been a compatibility issue, I installed SQLServer2008SP3-KB2546951-x64-ENU.exe on the system. That is when I opened
this forum question. Not sure if this will be helpful, but when I look in Control Panel Programs, this is what I see, a mixture of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
Can you suggest what needs to be done in order to #1 get the server browser installed, and #2 to get the server to recognize a named instance of the server so that I can connect to it?
Hi CodingMann,
SQL Server Brower Service is installed with SQL Server, which provides the instance name and the version number. The SQL Server Browser can be configured during setup or by using SQL Server Configuration Manager. Also you can run services.msc in command
line and check if SQL Server Browser exists, then start it. If the SQL Server Browser service is not running, you are still able to connect to SQL Server if you provide the correct port number or named pipe. For instance, you can connect to the default instance
of SQL Server with TCP/IP if it is running on port 1433. For more information, see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181087(v=sql.100).aspx
If you choose installing an named instance of SQL Server 2008 Express, the
 named instance can use an instance name of MSSQLSERVER, for more information, you can review the similar article.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165614(v=sql.90).aspx
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
TechNet Community Support