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No special reason other than that doing it later in Disk Management I can do everything I want to at once. Change drive letters, name partitions, shrink and expand if I need to.
Other than that how and when you partition has non whatsoever effect in final result.
Using a genuine, valid and original Windows install media, your Windows will be genuine during the 30 day grace period, without activation. All Windows Updates work regardless if you are on the grace period or have already activated your product key. However, if you for some reason want to enter your product key and activate Windows as soon as possible, you can do it normally during the finalizing part of installation when OOBE dialogs are presented (tutorial Part 13, time stamp 1:25:18 in video 1 and 0:13:14 in video 2).
That being said, I am a bit old school in certain matters. I want to install first and check everything works as intended before entering the product key and activating. Especially when using an OEM license I need to be sure all hardware components are working as planned, drivers can be found and so on; using the grace period I can still change / replace hardware components without gambling with my OEM license.
Kari