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Many people using Outlook run Teams meetings, because it's just one button click away in Outlook. Compare to others where you have to go to a different tool and create a meeting and copy-paste a link.

The antitrust way would be to have Outlook have buttons for a lot of different meeting services out of the box. Many don't require installing any software (Google meet for example). It's all just API:s.

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My employer's Outlook does have a button for a competing meeting service. (WebEx)

Some people are starting to use Teams for their meetings now because some of them like it better than WebEx, but it is exactly the same amount of effort to schedule either of them directly from Outlook.

In my opinion, Webex is very old and for example Linux compatibility is worse than Teams.

Anyone can build a 1 click experience similar to the Teams add-in for outlook.

So some kind of plugin?

Yep. For instance, there's a Zoom plugin that puts a "make a Zoom meeting" button right there as well.

That's how teams does it, yes.

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