An analysis for the prospective search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson with the CMS experiment is presented. The search strategy is based on the inclusive production of Higgs bosons, which decay to a pair of $W$ bosons. The leptonic final states (e and $\mu$) of the $W$ bosons provide a good signature for the Higgs boson, allowing the isolation of a sample of events rich in signal. Signal and background samples are generated with a detailed simulation of the detector response and the complete offline reconstruction chain. A fairly simple analysis using a set of sequential cuts is described, as well as a more sophisticated multivariate method using a boosted decision tree. This study is directed toward a start-up scenario in which the LHC luminosity is 10^{32} \cm^{-2} {\rm s}^{-1}, integrating to 100 $\mathrm{pb^{-1}}$ of data sample.

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