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by lunarg on September 3rd 2014, at 14:56

Wanted to install the latest BES Express (at the time of writing, this was 5.0.4) on a fresh Windows-server. Starting Setup.exe briefly shows the Blackberry splash-screen, then immediately crashes ("this program has stopped working...").

Apparently, RIM did some sloppy programming: changing the regional settings to English (US) or English (UK) resolves the issue.