I can see both viewpoints, but we have a situation where the OP wants a printer now now now for a new new new OS. The point being, if the OP is patient, some waiting may see drivers written for his existing printer.
But missing in action is the assumption, that we should have one and only one printer, maybe more true for someone who lives alone, but far less true for a family of PC users who have varied printing needs.
And maybe I am a poster child for such a mini famdamily, its just my wife and I.
And years ago I got flat out lucky when my old Lexmark inkjet crapped out. After doing an inordinate amount of research, I bought a non chipped canon inkjet for my wife, we first used third party prefilled cartridges and later switched to refilling. I thus avoided the typical bug a boo of inkjets being a huge rip off. Sadly, that non chipped inkjet option no longer exists, ink jets can still be refilled, but its much harder now.
Later on, we had multifuctional scanning, copying, and faxing needs so I bought a used multifuctional monochrome laser for really cheap. With bigger bucks I could have bought a new color laser, but when its comes to photoprinting, it takes an refillable inkjet to do the photoprinting without being totally ripped off.
As it is, we network both printers, meaning I can print using the B/W laser or her inkjet if I need color, she can do the same, very handy when she needs to bang out a large number of copies fast because an inkjet is slow at that.
But believe it or not, in terms of consumables, I can print color on the inkjet cheaper than I can print on the B/W on the laser.
Were I the OP, I would reverse my strategy, get a single function cheap monochrome laser that is windows 7 ready for now, and later add a multifunctional inkjet if you really need color. And with a little luck, a driver will come out for the existing inkjet.