Bill Gates goes to the Olympics

We just ran into Bill Gates at a cocktail party at The D Conference. Microsoft's founder says he's looking forward to retiring on July 1 -- but he's not getting nostalgic. "People my age don't do that," he says. "My dad is good at that. He's 82."

Gates is going to take some of his new-found free time to travel to Europe with his family. He's also heading to Beijing for the Olympics. And he expects to be able to pick his kids up from school more often. (Today he can only drop them off about three days a week.)

The conference is just getting going. We'll keep you posted on the news as it unfolds.